Webster's English Dictionary

reader

read.er \'re-d-*r\ n 1a: one that reads  1b: one appointed to read to 
   others : as  1b1: LECTOR  1b2: one chosen to read aloud selected material 
   in a Christian Science chur ch or society 1c1: PROOFREADER  1c2: one that 
   evaluates manuscripts  1c3: one that reads periodical literature to 
   discover items of special inte rest or value 1d: an employee that reads and 
   records the indications of meters  1e: a teacher's assistant who reads and 
   marks student papers  Brit  2: one who reads lectures or expounds subjects 
   to students  3a: a device for projecting a readable image of a transparency 
    3b: a unit that scans material recorded (as on punched cards) for storage 
   o r computation 4a: a book for instruction and practice esp. in reading  
   4b: ANTHOLOGY