Noun

Singular reader

Plural readers

reader (plural readers)

1. A person who reads a publication.
2. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
3. A proofreader.
4. (chiefly British) A university lecturer below a professor.
5. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
6. A literary anthology.
7. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
8. A device such as a card reader or microfilm reader.
9. A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

Reader can mean a person who is reading a text, or a basal reader, a book used to teach reading. It may also refer to:

Family name

• Colin Reader, English geologist
• Eddi Reader, Scottish singer
• Francis Reader (born 1965) , Scottish musician
• Ralph Reader (1903-1982), British director and producer, famous for originating the Gang Show in Scouting
• Ted Reader, a well renowned Canadian chef

Persons who read

• A publisher's reader, also called a first reader
• Historically, a person who entertained cigar factory workers by reading books or newspapers aloud, also known as a lector; see cigar manufacture
• Reader (liturgy), someone charged with reading Scripture in church (also called a Lector)
• Reader (Christian Science Church), a person who conducts services in a Christian Science church, also called a First Reader or Second Reader
• Reader (Anglican Church)
• Reader (academic rank), the British academic rank between senior (or principal) lecturer and professor

Places

• Reader, Arkansas
• Reader, Illinois
• Reader, West Virginia