| reader | | |
| n. (person) | 1. reader | a person who enjoys reading. |
| ~ bookworm | someone who spends a great deal of time reading. |
| ~ bookman, scholar, scholarly person, student | a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines. |
| n. (person) | 2. reader, subscriber | someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication. |
| ~ customer, client | someone who pays for goods or services. |
| n. (person) | 3. reader | a person who can read; a literate person. |
| ~ decipherer | a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text. |
| ~ literate, literate person | a person who can read and write. |
| ~ map-reader | a person who can read maps.; "he is a good map-reader" |
| ~ skimmer | a rapid superficial reader. |
| n. (person) | 4. reader, referee, reviewer | someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication. |
| ~ critic | anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something. |
| ~ scanner | someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables. |
| n. (person) | 5. proofreader, reader | someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections. |
| ~ pressman, printer | someone whose occupation is printing. |
| n. (person) | 6. lector, reader | someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church. |
| ~ clergyman, man of the cloth, reverend | a member of the clergy and a spiritual leader of the Christian Church. |
| ~ holy order, order | (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy.; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate Order" |
| n. (person) | 7. lector, lecturer, reader | a public lecturer at certain universities. |
| ~ educator, pedagog, pedagogue | someone who educates young people. |
| n. (communication) | 8. reader | one of a series of texts for students learning to read. |
| ~ school text, schoolbook, text edition, textbook, text | a book prepared for use in schools or colleges.; "his economics textbook is in its tenth edition"; "the professor wrote the text that he assigned students to buy" |
| ~ mcguffey eclectic readers | readers that combined lessons in reading with moralistic messages. |
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