reader

noun17

1. •
   A person who reads.
2. •
   A person who reads a publication.

   • In its May 1965 issue, Life magazine condemned skateboards as a “menace to limb and even to life,” and cautioned readers about riders who “take over the paths made for peaceful strollers.” — 2018
3. •
   Any device that reads something.

   • The reMarkable PDF reader is really targeted at the digital writing market, rather than the digital reading market, though most serious e-readers support pens for annotations and signatures. — 2019
4. •
   (UK) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
5. •
   A proofreader.
6. •
   A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.

   • They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman. — 1938
7. •
   An elementary textbook for those learning to read, in a native language or a foreign language.
8. •
   A literary anthology.

   • A good bedtime reader should entertain and delight, and that's what I find in Girard Kent's The Boy Harleqin ^([sic]) and Other Stories. — 1981
9. •
   [in the plural] Reading glasses.
10. •
    A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
11. •
    A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
12. •
    A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
13. •
    A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
14. •
    A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
15. •
    [in the plural] (slang) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.

    • LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses. — 1961
16. •
    At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.
17. •
    (slang, no longer used) A wallet or pocketbook.

    • […] Q was a Queer-screen, that served as a blind; / R was a Reader, with flimsies well lined; […] — 1846