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Substantiivi

1. A person who reads.
2. A person who reads a publication.
3. A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
4. A proofreader.
5. A person employed by a publisher to read works submitted for publication and determine their merits.
6. A position attached to aristocracy, or to the wealthy, with the task of reading aloud, often in a foreign language.
7. (chiefly British) A university lecturer ranking below a professor.
8. Any device that reads something.
9. A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
10. An elementary textbook for those learning to read, especially for foreign languages.
11. A literary anthology.
12. A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
13. (advertising) A newspaper advertisement designed to look like a news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
14. (in the plural) Reading glasses.
15. (slang, gambling, in the plural) Marked playing cards used by cheaters.
16. (obsolete, slang) A wallet or pocketbook.
17. At Eton College, a lesson for which pupils are sent back to their separate school houses.