1. A person who enjoys reading
   "As an avid reader, she always had a book in her hand"
    
2. Someone who contracts to receive and pay for a service or a certain number of issues of a publication
   "The loyal reader had maintained her subscription for over 20 years";
   - subscriber
    
3. A person who can read; a literate person
   "The literacy program aimed to turn more people into confident readers"
    
4. Someone who reads manuscripts and judges their suitability for publication
   "The publisher employed several readers to assess incoming manuscripts";
   - reviewer, referee
    
5. Someone who reads proof in order to find errors and mark corrections
   "The reader caught several typos in the manuscript";
   - proofreader
    
6. One of a series of texts for students learning to read
   "The children practised their literacy skills using a colourful reader"
    
7. Someone who reads the lessons in a church service; someone ordained in a minor order of the Roman Catholic Church
   "The reader's clear voice carried through the church as he read the scripture";
   - lector
    
8. [Brit] A university lecturer, the highest rank below a professor
   "She was promoted to reader after years of dedicated research and teaching"
    
9. A device for obtaining information from something, e.g. a card reader or microfilm reader
   "The library installed new microfilm readers to access archived newspapers"

Derived forms: readers

Type of: client, critic, customer, Holy Order, literate, literate person, Order, printer, reverend, scholar, scholarly person, school text, schoolbook, text, text edition, textbook

Encyclopedia: Reader, Peter