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What does the word read mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive

To understand, as written or printed characters, or any marks or signs; peruse; interpret; explain; also, to utter audibly what is so learned.

Part of speech: verb

To gain information, as from anything written or printed; utter aloud the contents, as of a book or manuscript.

Part of speech: adjective

Informed as by reading; acquainted with books or literature.

Usage examples for read

Nejdanov did not read well. – Virgin Soil by Ivan S. Turgenev
Did you read what Lord Ongar had said?" – The Claverings by Anthony Trollope
I am going to read." – The Circular Staircase by Mary Roberts Rinehart

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