n. 1. A person who reads, especially: a. A person who regularly reads certain material: a reader of crime novels. b. See lay reader. c. A person employed by a publisher to read and evaluate manuscripts. d. One who corrects printers' proofs; a proofreader. e. A teaching assistant who reads and grades examination papers. 2. Chiefly British A university teacher, especially one ranking next below a professor. 3. a. A textbook of reading exercises. b. An anthology, especially a literary anthology. 4. Any of various devices that read or retrieve data from a storage device or credit card. 5. See e-reader. 6. readers Glasses that are used primarily for reading. |
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