English noun: reader |
1. | reader (person) a person who enjoys reading |
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| Broader (hypernym) | bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | bookworm |
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2. | reader (person) someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication |
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| Synonyms | subscriber |
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| Broader (hypernym) | client, customer |
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3. | reader (person) a person who can read; a literate person |
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| Broader (hypernym) | literate, literate person |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | decipherer, map-reader, skimmer |
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4. | reader (person) someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication |
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| Synonyms | referee, reviewer |
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| Broader (hypernym) | critic |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | scanner |
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5. | reader (person) someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections |
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| Synonyms | proofreader |
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| Broader (hypernym) | pressman, printer |
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6. | reader (person) someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church |
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| Synonyms | lector |
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| Broader (hypernym) | clergyman, Holy Order, man of the cloth, Order, reverend |
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7. | reader (person) a public lecturer at certain universities |
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| Synonyms | lector, lecturer |
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| Broader (hypernym) | educator, pedagog, pedagogue |
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8. | reader (communication) one of a series of texts for students learning to read |
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| Broader (hypernym) | school text, schoolbook, text, text edition, textbook |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | McGuffey Eclectic Readers |
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