Reader Science Fiction Reads Book Noun Bre ˈriːdə(R

• an avid reader of science fiction
• a fast/slow reader
• the reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions.
• readers’ letters

reader

1. a person who reads, especially one who reads a lot or in a particular way
• an avid reader of science fiction
• a fast/slow reader
• The reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions.
2. a person who reads a particular newspaper, magazine, etc.
• readers’ letters
• Are you a ‘Times’ reader?
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
• See related entries: University people
  https://www.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/topic/university_people/reader_2
• 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
6. a machine that produces on a screen a large image of a text stored on a microfiche or microfilm

Extra Examples

• Alert readers may have noticed the misprint in last week’s column.
• And so, dear reader, our tale comes to its end.
• 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
• a voracious reader of science fiction
• regular readers of this magazine

Word Origin

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