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Reader

noun

A person who enjoys reading.

Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication. Synonym: subscriber.

A person who can read; a literate person.

Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication. Synonyms: referee, reviewer.

Someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections. Synonym: proofreader.

Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church. Synonym: lector.

A public lecturer at certain universities. Synonyms: lector, lecturer.

One of a series of texts for students learning to read.

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"Reader" Quotes from Famous Books

... particular in my description of him, in order that my reader may give due weight to his words. I am such a believer in words, that I believe everything depends on who says them. Uncle Cornelius Heywood's story told word for word by Uncle Timothy Warren, would not have been the same story at all. Not one of the listeners would have ...

— The Portent & Other Stories • George MacDonald

... confusion in which the facts are arranged, or left without arrangement, the account of a single incident being often in two widely separated places. But the book rises much above the level of mere annals, and while perhaps not reaching that of the philosophical historian, gives the reader more of the feeling that a living man is writing about living men than is usual in medieval books. It reveals in the writer a lively imagination, which, while it does not affect the historical value ...

— The History of England From the Norman Conquest - to the Death of John (1066-1216) • George Burton Adams

... The play gives the reader the uncanny feeling that something real inside the piece is trying to get out of the fantasy. The lip-love rattles like a skeleton's bones. The love of Biron for Rosaline is real passion. The conflict throughout is the conflict of ...

— William Shakespeare • John Masefield

... like to see more than one newspaper, but the majority of people cannot afford to be dual subscribers, and a great many cannot even afford to buy a single news-sheet regularly. Hence agencies exist for circulating the papers from one reader to another. Those who receive them straight from the publisher pay most, and those who are contented to enjoy their news when one, two, or three days old pay but a small fee. The newspaper circulating ...

— Dutch Life in Town and Country • P. M. Hough

... personal demonstration as to how any smooth-tongued stranger could turn up at even this "holy of holies." The nocturnal trail led in a military train from Luxemburg over Longwy to Longuyon, where at 3 o'clock in the morning I met an old reader of THE NEW YORK TIMES, Herman Herzberger, a wealthy glove leather manufacturer of Berlin, well known to the trade in New York ...

— The New York Times Current History: the European War, February, 1915 • Various

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