reader

• album
• almanac
• ana
• analects
• announcer
• anthology
• archives
• bibliomaniac
• bibliophile
• book reviewer
• bookworm
• browser
• casebook
• chapbook
• collectanea
• compendium
• compilation
• corpus
• digest
• editor
• elocutionist
• florilegium
• garland
• lector
• lecturer
• library
• library patron
• literary critic
• miscellanea
• miscellany
• monologist
• peruser
• primer
• proofreader
• reciter
• research worker
• rhetorician
• scholar
• soliloquist
• sourcebook
• student
• symposium
• user

• noun
  1. A person who reads.
  2. A person who reads a publication.
  3. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
  4. A proofreader.
  5. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
  6. A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
  7. Any device that reads something.
  8. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
  9. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
  10. A literary anthology.
  11. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
  12. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
  13. (in the plural) Reading glasses.
  14. (in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheats.

• She’s an avid reader who finishes several books a month.
• The article kept the reader engaged from beginning to end.
• As a reader, he prefers nonfiction over fiction.
• The author thanked every loyal reader in the dedication.
• A good reader can visualize the story vividly while reading.

palmist

quarto

day student

educationist

educator

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