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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

... having tried to cheat the king. But I must leave this subject, and take my leave, till a fitter opportunity occurs for giving you further particulars of the "House of Under;" in the meanwhile, believe me, courteous reader, yours, sincerely, ...

— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. XIX. No. 532. Saturday, February 4, 1832 • Various

... The reader of this series of biographies is already familiar with Hamilton's skillful barter of votes for the Potomac site of the capital in exchange for votes in favor of his scheme for the assumption of the state debts. Madison seems not to have been ignorant ...

— James Madison • Sydney Howard Gay

... forty-five years of age, somewhat embonpoint, and had a thoroughly Bourbon physiognomy." [Footnote: Silvio Pellico, "Le Mie Prigioni," p. 51 et seq. An examination of Silvio Pellico's work will convince the reader that Silvio Pellico was by no means a believer in the genuineness of his companion's claims. Miss Muhlbach seems to have been scarcely just in leaving the impression conveyed in ...

— Marie Antoinette And Her Son • Louise Muhlbach

... slightly to change the sense. In some places, owing to the obscurity of the original text, I have had to amplify the translation. In other places I have had to cut short the descriptions of Hindu rites and ceremonies so as to avoid wearying the English reader. ...

— Deccan Nursery Tales - or, Fairy Tales from the South • Charles Augustus Kincaid

... is not courteous to the reader to detain him among such unrealities as Sir Edward Carson's Civil War. Treason, that is to say platform treason, is not so much an eccentricity as a habit of Orangeism. It is a way they have in the Lodges, and their past history ...

— The Open Secret of Ireland • T. M. Kettle

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