Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A person who cannot or does not read, especially a child who takes a long time learning to read.
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- noun One who does not read.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a student who is very slow in learning to read
- noun a person unable to read
Etymologies
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Examples
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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When reading is what every student around you is supposed to be able to do, when the world is offered up in signs, pages, and screens of words, a nonreader is reminded constantly of what he is not good at.
Red Flags or Red Herrings? Susan Engel 2011
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language.
Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011
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