| Noun | 1. | reader - a person who enjoys readingbookworm - someone who spends a great deal of time reading scholar, scholarly person, student - a learned person (especially in the humanities); someone who by long study has gained mastery in one or more disciplines | |
| 2. | reader - someone who contracts to receive and pay for a certain number of issues of a publication | |
| 3. | reader - a person who can read; a literate persondecipherer - a reader capable of reading and interpreting illegible or obscure text map-reader - a person who can read maps; "he is a good map-reader" skimmer - a rapid superficial reader | |
| 4. | reader - someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publicationcritic - anyone who expresses a reasoned judgment of something scanner - someone who scans verse to determine the number and prosodic value of the syllables | |
| 5. | reader - someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections | |
| 6. | reader - someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Churchholy order, order - (usually plural) the status or rank or office of a Christian clergyman in an ecclesiastical hierarchy; "theologians still disagree over whether `bishop' should or should not be a separate order" | |
| 7. | reader - a public lecturer at certain universities | |
| 8. | reader - one of a series of texts for students learning to read | |