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read is a verb and noun meaning "interpret something that is written or printed". It is pronounced /ˈɹɛd/ — red. It carries 12 recorded senses.
have or contain a certain wording or form
“The passage reads as follows”
“What does the law say?”
audition for a stage role by reading parts of a role
“He is auditioning for `Julius Caesar' at Stratford this year”
performing arts
make sense of a language
“She understands French”
“Can you read Greek?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for read come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.