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Synonyms of reading in English:

reading


See US English definition of Reading

See UK English definition of reading

See Spanish definition of lectura

noun

1‘a cursory reading of the financial pages’

SYNONYMS
perusal, study, scan, scanning, scrutiny
browse, browse through, look, look through, glance, glance through, leaf, leaf through, flick, flick through, skim, skim through

2‘a man of wide reading’

SYNONYMS
learning, book learning, scholarship, education, erudition, knowledge, knowledge of literature

3‘readings from the Bible’

SYNONYMS
passage, lesson
section, piece, selection
recital, recitation

4‘a one-sided reading of the situation’

SYNONYMS
interpretation, construal, understanding, account, explanation, analysis, construction
version
informal take

5‘the reading on the gas meter’

SYNONYMS
record, figure, indication, read-out, display, measurement