Results for reading

Definitions of reading:

part of speech: adjective

Addicted to reading.

part of speech: noun

A perusal; a public recital; a lecture; a given word or passage as it reads in a particular MS. or printed book; a version or interpretation of a particular passage in a book, as conveying the true meaning of its author; the formal recital of a bill before Parliament, as first reading.

part of speech: noun

Perusal of written or printed matter; study of books; scholarship; public recital; as, to give readings from the poets; form of a particular passage in a book; as, various readings of a passage in Shakespeare; written or printed matter to be perused; manner of interpreting; as, an actor's reading of his lines; that which is shown by a scientific instrument; as, the reading of a gas meter.

part of speech: noun

Act of reading: persual: study of books: public or formal recital: the way in which a passage reads: an interpretation of a passage or work.

Usage examples for reading:

• She had taken out a letter, and she was reading it by the fire. "Foul Play", Charles Reade Dion Boucicault

• I wasn't reading about her to- night. "A Red Wallflower", Susan Warner

• Why are you reading your will? "Lysbeth A Tale Of The Dutch", H. Rider Haggard

• Don't you like reading "Sara Crewe", Frances Hodgson Burnett