{
    "term": "reader",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "a1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "a person who reads, especially one who reads a lot or in a particular way",
            "labels": "(US English)",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an **avid reader** of science fiction"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a **fast/slow reader**"
                },
                {
                    "text": "And so, **dear reader**, our tale comes to its end."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The reader is left to draw his or her own conclusions."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are many examples to **help the reader** understand the usefulness of this approach."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Johnson also **reminds his readers** that ‘the New York School’ was much more than a geographical label."
                },
                {
                    "text": "**Readers interested** in this period of British history will find much of value in this book."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book **invites** young **readers **to examine the issues."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The book is accessible to the interested reader with a basic knowledge of the subject."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a book that will be too difficult for the general reader"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She allows readers to experience events from a child's perspective."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The vividness of Dickens's imaginative account of the riots was intended both to shock and to inform his readers."
                },
                {
                    "text": "His insights will undoubtedly encourage the reader to seek out more of Mozart's music."
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["careful", "competent", "fast"],
                "preposition": ["reader of"],
                "phrases": ["dear reader"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "a person who reads a particular newspaper, magazine, etc.",
            "cefr": "a1",
            "ox3000": true,
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "readers’ letters"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Are you a ‘Times’ reader?"
                },
                {
                    "text": "**regular readers** of this magazine"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Readers of this blog will know my views on the matter."
                },
                {
                    "text": "Alert readers may have noticed the misprint in last week's column."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The magazine asked readers to nominate their favourite celebrities."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["TV, radio and news"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["careful", "competent", "fast"],
                "preposition": ["reader of"],
                "phrases": ["dear reader"]
            }
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "an easy book that is intended to help people learn to read their own or a foreign language",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a series of graded English readers"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 4,
            "definition": "a senior teacher at a British university just below the rank of a professor",
            "cefr": "c2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "She is Reader in Music at Edinburgh."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Education"]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 5,
            "definition": "an electronic device that reads data stored in one form and changes it into another form so that a computer can perform operations on it",
            "labels": "(computing)",
            "examples": []
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 6,
            "definition": "a machine that produces on a screen a large image of a text stored on a microfiche or microfilm",
            "labels": "(specialist)",
            "examples": []
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈriːdə(r)/",
                "audio": "re/reader/reader__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈriːdər/",
                "audio": "re/reader/reader__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Old English rǣdere ‘interpreter of dreams, reader’."
}