Reader Book Reads Noun ˈriːdə(R ˈriːdər Avid Science

• an avid reader of science fiction
• a fast/slow reader
• and so, dear reader, our tale comes to its end.
• the reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions.

reader

1. a person who reads, especially one who reads a lot or in a particular way
• SEE ALSO sight-reader
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/sight-reader
• an avid reader of science fiction
• a fast/slow reader
• And so, dear reader, our tale comes to its end.
• The reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions.
• There are many examples to help the reader understand the usefulness of this approach.
• Johnson also reminds his readers that ‘the New York School’ was much more than a geographical label.
• Readers interested in this period of British history will find much of value in this book.
• The book invites young readers to examine the issues.

Extra Examples

• The book is accessible to the interested reader with basic knowledge of the subject.
• a book that will be too difficult for the general reader
• She allows readers to experience events from a child's perspective.
• The vividness of Dickens's imaginative account of the riots was intended both to shock and to inform his readers.
• His insights will undoubtedly encourage the reader to seek out more of Mozart's music.
2. a person who reads a particular newspaper, magazine, etc.
• readers’ letters
• Are you a ‘Times’ reader?
• regular readers of this magazine
• Readers of this blog will know my views on the matter.
• Alert readers may have noticed the misprint in last week's column.
• The magazine asked readers to nominate their favourite celebrities.
3. an easy book that is intended to help people learn to read their own or a foreign language
• a series of graded English readers
4. a senior teacher at a British university just below the rank of a professor
• She is Reader in Music at Edinburgh.
5. an electronic device that reads data stored in one form and changes it into another form so that a computer can perform operations on it
• SEE ALSO card reader
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/definition/english/card-reader
6. a machine that produces on a screen a large image of a text stored on a microfiche or microfilm

Word Origin

• Old English rǣdere ‘interpreter of dreams, reader’.