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Reader vs Subreader - What's the difference?

reader | subreader |

As nouns the difference between reader and subreader

is that reader is a person who reads a publication while subreader is an under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.

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

    subreader

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (legal, UK, archaic) An under reader in the inns of court, who reads the texts of law the reader is to discourse upon.
    • (Crabb)
    (Webster 1913)