reader
/ˈɹi.dɚ/ noun A1- A person who reads. · an early reader, a talented reader
- A person who reads a publication. · 10,000 weekly readers
- A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
- A proofreader.
- A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
- A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
- Any device that reads something. · a card reader, a microfilm reader
- A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
Plural readers
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The narratives of Watson have accustomed the reader, no doubt, to the fact that I do not waste words or disclose my thoughts while a case is actually under consideration.
## VI TO ANY READER
It presented, as the astute reader will have already perceived, few difficulties in its solution, for a very limited choice of alternatives must get to the root of the matter.
However, scarcely was the imperial power established—that is, scarcely had the emperor re-entered the Tuileries and begun to issue orders from the closet into which we have introduced our readers,—he found on the table there Louis XVIII.’s half-filled snuff-box,—scarcely had this occurred when Marseilles began, in spite of the authorities, to rekindle the flames of civil war, always smouldering in the south, and it required but little to excite the populace to acts of far greater violence than the shouts and insults with which they assailed the royalists whenever they ventured abroad.
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