Reader, The noun [uncountable]
a weekly US newspaper printed in Chicago. It mainly covers news, entertainment, politics, and culture.

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read‧er S3 W2 /ˈriːdə $ -ər/ noun [countable]
[Word Family: noun: read, reader, readership, reading, readability; verb: read; adjective: readable ≠ unreadable]

1. SOMEBODY WHO READS someone who reads books, or who reads in a particular way:
The book will appeal to young readers.
I’ve always been an avid reader (=someone who reads a lot).
reader of
He’s a great reader of crime fiction.
a fast/slow reader

2. OF A NEWSPAPER/MAGAZINE someone who reads a particular newspaper or magazine regularly:
The newspaper gradually lost readers during the 1980s.

3. BOOK an easy book for children who are learning to read or for people who are learning a foreign language

4. TEACHER Reader an important teacher in a British university
Reader in
a Reader in Sociology at Bristol University

5. EQUIPMENT technical a piece of electronic equipment that can read information that is stored or recorded somewhere, for example on a card
⇒ mind reader, newsreader

[TahlilGaran] Dictionary of Contemporary English ▲

reader
noun
ADJ. careful, competent, fast, fluent, good | alert, attentive Alert readers may have noticed the misprint in last week's column.
discerning, sophisticated | poor, slow | avid, great, voracious | omnivorous | regular regular readers of this magazine
casual | adult, female, male, women, young | specialist | general, non-specialist a book that will be too difficult for the general reader
Daily Express, Guardian, etc. | tabloid
PREP. ~ of a voracious reader of science fiction

[TahlilGaran] Collocations Dictionary ▲

reader

a slow/fast reader
Her son was quite a slow reader.
a good reader
He's not a good reader but he wants to try a new story.
a poor reader (=someone who is not good at reading)
All these students had been judged to be poor readers.
a great reader (=someone who reads a lot of books)
My father was a great reader.
an avid/voracious reader (=someone who eagerly reads a lot of books)
She was an avid reader of historical novels.

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