English Dictionary

reader

IPA（発音記号）

/ˈɹidɚ/

名詞

イギリス英語 複数形 俗語

A person who reads. / A person who reads a publication. / A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience. / A proofreader.

日本語の意味

読書する人、読者 / 出版物などを読む人、雑誌や新聞を読む人 / 朗読者、聴衆に文学作品を朗読する人 / 原稿を校正する人、校正者

The reader smiled as she reached the last page of the novel.

その小説の最後のページに差し掛かったとき、読者は微笑んだ。

意味（1）

A person who reads.

an early reader, a talented reader

意味（2）

A person who reads a publication.

10,000 weekly readers

意味（3）

A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.

意味（4）

A proofreader.

意味（5）

A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.

They were dog-eared by the hands of many a publisher's-reader and postman.

意味（6）

A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.

I am commissioned by the Queen to offer you the place of Italian reader; and I assure you the offer was made with many kind expressions of interest. You will enter upon the duties, which are almost nominal, immediately.

意味（7）

(chiefly Britain) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.

意味（8）

Any device that reads something.

a card reader, a microfilm reader

意味（9）

A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.

意味（10）

An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.

Appletons’ School Readers

意味（11）

A literary anthology.

意味（12）

A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.

意味（13）

(advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.

意味（14）

(in the plural) Reading glasses.

意味（15）

(slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.

LUMINOUS READERS—Marked cards that can be read only through tinted glasses.

readers （ plural ）