Reading

Definition of reading:

part of speech: adjective

Addicted to reading.

part of speech: noun

Perusal; recital; interpretation or language of a passage.

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:

• However, she was not reading it. "The Loves of Ambrose", Margaret Vandercook.

• I wouldn't mind how much he had to talk, nor yet how much he had to write, if it wasn't for all that weary reading "The Vicar of Bullhampton", Anthony Trollope.

• How long will people go on reading their morning paper at breakfast?" "The Thunder Bird", B. M. Bower.

• And now, when I am reading the same books with the children that I read with her, things that she said to me come back upon me. "Abbeychurch or, Self-Control and Self-Conceit", Charlotte M. Yonge.