lector
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Is lector a Scrabble word?
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Definition
noun (English)
1. (religion) A lay person who reads aloud certain religious texts in a church service.
2. (education) A public lecturer or reader at some universities.
3. (historical, US, cigar industry) A person who reads aloud to workers to entertain them, appointed by a trade union.Examples: "Its lyrical, poetic flights seem much more at home in the romantic musings of two sisters competing for the attention of the new, handsome lector, a man hired to read stories to workers in a Florida cigar factory, who might otherwise be mesmerized by the repetitive boredom of their jobs."UShistorical
4. (television, film) A person doing voice-over translation of foreign films, especially in Eastern European countries.Examples: "The Hungarian viewer of The Colbert Report wants to experience authentic American comedy, and the lector—like an interpreter performing chuchotage at a high-level meeting of heads of state—serves primarily as a check on the viewer's grasp of the real thing."
Definition source: Wiktionary