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literary | reader |

As a adjective literary

is relating to literature.

As a noun reader is

a person who reads a publication.

literary

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to literature.
  • literary''' fame; a '''literary''' history; '''literary conversation
  • * Johnson
  • He has long outlived his century, the term commonly fixed as the test of literary merit.
  • Relating to writers, or the profession of literature.
  • a literary man
  • * Mason
  • in the literary as well as fashionable world
  • Knowledgeable of literature or writing.
  • Appropriate to literature rather than everyday writing.
  • Bookish.
  • Synonyms

    * (l)

    Derived terms

    * literary criticism * literary device * literary form * literary genre * literary technique * literary theory

    Anagrams

    *

    reader

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A person who reads a publication.
  • A person who recites literary works, usually to an audience.
  • A proofreader.
  • (chiefly, British) A university lecturer below a professor.
  • Any device that reads something.
  • a card reader''''', ''a microfilm '''reader
  • A book of exercises to accompany a textbook.
  • A literary anthology.
  • A lay or minor cleric who reads lessons in a church service.
  • A newspaper advertisement designed to look like an news article rather than a commercial solicitation.
  • Derived terms

    * early reader

    Anagrams

    * * * English agent nouns