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Anything produced for the purpose of being read; a collective term for books, magazines, newspapers, etc.; reading matter.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: countable, uncountable
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
written material intended to be read
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the teacher assigned new readings
- he bought some reading material at the airport
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: reading
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: written communication, written language, black and white
Narrower terms: bumf, bumph
No etymology was provided for this word.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Afrikaans:
leesstof
— anything produced for reading
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Azerbaijani:
oxu materialları
— anything produced for reading
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Chinese Mandarin:
讀物 /读物
(dúwù)
— anything produced for reading
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Danish:
læsestof
— anything produced for reading
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Finnish:
lukeminen
— anything produced for reading
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Finnish:
luettava
— anything produced for reading
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Finnish:
lukemisto
— anything produced for reading
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French:
matériel de lecture
— anything produced for reading
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German:
Lesestoff
— anything produced for reading
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Hungarian:
olvasnivaló
— anything produced for reading
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Hungarian:
olvasmány
— anything produced for reading
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Indonesian:
bacaan
— anything produced for reading
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Italian:
materiale di lettura
— anything produced for reading
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Japanese:
読み物
— anything produced for reading
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Norwegian Bokmål:
lesestoff
— anything produced for reading
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
lesestoff
— anything produced for reading
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Polish:
lektura
— anything produced for reading
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Portuguese:
material de leitura
— anything produced for reading
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Russian:
материа́л для чте́ния
(materiál dlja čténija)
— anything produced for reading
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Spanish:
material de lectura
— anything produced for reading
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Sundanese:
bacaeun
— anything produced for reading
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Sundanese:
aoseun
— anything produced for reading
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Ukrainian:
матеріа́л для чита́ння
(materiál dlja čytánnja)
— anything produced for reading
