Usually means: Person who interprets written text.
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We found 35 dictionaries that define the word reader:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. Reader, reader: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  2. reader: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  3. reader: Collins English Dictionary
  4. reader: Vocabulary.com
  5. Reader, reader, reader, the-reader: Wordnik
  6. reader: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. Reader, reader: Wiktionary
  8. reader: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. reader: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. reader: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Reader, reader: Dictionary.com
  12. reader: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  13. Reader (Christian Science Church), Reader (Inns of Court), Reader (academic rank), Reader (liturgy), Reader, The Reader (disambiguation), The Reader (magazine), The Reader (newspaper), The Reader (weekly), The Reader: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Reader: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. reader: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. reader: Rhymezone
  17. Reader: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  18. reader: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  19. Reader: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  20. reader: Free Dictionary
  21. reader: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. reader: Dictionary/thesaurus
  23. reader: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
  24. reader: Merriam-Webster.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Literary Criticism (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reader (place), reader: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Reader (place), reader: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. READER: Acronym Finder

Slang (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. reader: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Reader: Dublin Slang and Phrasebook
  3. Reader, The Reader, reader: Urban Dictionary

Tech (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Locksmith Dictionary (No longer online)

(Note: See readers as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  A person who reads.
noun:  A person who reads a publication.
noun:  A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
noun:  A proofreader.
noun:  A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
noun:  A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
noun:  (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
noun:  Any device that reads something.
noun:  A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
noun:  An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
noun:  A literary anthology.
noun:  A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
noun:  (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
noun:  (in the plural) Reading glasses.
noun:  (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
noun:  (obsolete, slang) A wallet or pocketbook.
noun:  At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
noun:  A surname
noun:  A census-designated place in Nevada County and Ouachita County, Arkansas, United States.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Western Mound Township, Macoupin County, Illinois, United States.
noun:  A census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States, named after the Reader Run creek.
noun:  (religion) Alternative form of reader (“a lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service”). [A person who reads.]

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