reader

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   A person who reads, or who reads a particular publication.

   The magazine has thousands of weekly readers.

2. 2
   noun

   A device that reads information.

   Hold your ticket up to the card reader.

3. 3
   noun

   A simple book for people learning to read or learning a language.

   The class used an easy reader to practise their English.

From Middle English reder, redar, redere, redare, from Old English rēdere, rǣdere (“a reader; scholar; diviner”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādāri, equivalent to read + -er. Cognate with Saterland Frisian Räider (“advisor”), Dutch rader (“advisor”), German Rater (“advisor”).

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