lip reader

1. 1.

   someone who can understand spoken words by watching the movements of a speaker's lips

   Broaderdeaf person

Questions about lip reader

What does lip reader mean?

lip reader means "someone who can understand spoken words by watching the movements of a speaker's lips".

Is lip reader a common word?

lip reader is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.