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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

... have prepared a hotchpotch of information of human follies, of contrasts, and of blunt stupidities of which he intended to make a very entertaining series of pages. I have not his talent for bringing such things together, but it may amuse the reader if I merely put in their order one or two of the notes which ...

— On Something • H. Belloc

... as may influence your future practice; and as to fairy tales in general, remember, that the fairies, as I told Miss Jenny before of giants and magic, are only introduced by the writers of those tales, by way of amusement to the reader. For if the story is well written, the common course of things would produce the same incidents, without ...

— The Governess - The Little Female Academy • Sarah Fielding

... present condition of the Catholic religion in Filipinas (we refer to the year 1896, before the Tagal insurrection), it will be advisable to place before the eyes of the reader the growth of the Christian population and the increase of the faithful from the coming of the ...

— The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 (Vol 28 of 55) • Various

... remarks, when the musical party ceased their instrumental exertions, and, diversifying the entertainment, one of the performers struck up a song, which we here present to the reader as a subject not inapplicable to ...

— Real Life In London, Volumes I. and II. • Pierce Egan

... and precaution were necessary, not only because the number of troops employed on the service was hardly adequate to discharge it, but because the garrison hemmed in was well known to be at once numerous and enterprising. The reader may accordingly judge what appearance a country presented which, to the extent of fifteen or twenty miles round, was thus treated; where every house was fortified, every road blocked up, every eminence mined with fieldworks, and every ...

— The Campaigns of the British Army at Washington and New Orleans 1814-1815 • G. R. Gleig

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