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lip-reader

lip-reader is the alternative form of lipreader.

Meaning of lipreader

Noun

lipreader (plural lipreaders)

  1. Someone who is able to determine a person's speech by observing the motion of their lips.
  2. A person who lipreads, or encourages others to do so.
    • Where is Bubba? Where's our leader? Where's our favorite lipreader?2008, Tom Paxton, “George W. Told the Nation”, in Farewell to the Thief!

Forms of lip-reader

plurallip-readers

Questions about lip-reader

What is lip-reader the alternative form of?
Lip-reader is the alternative form of lipreader.

Words near lip-reader in the dictionary

  1. lip-locked
  2. lip-locking
  3. lip-locks
  4. lip-pierced
  5. lip-read
  6. lip-reader
  7. lip-readers
  8. lip-reading
  9. lip-reads
  10. lip-ribbon
  11. lip-server

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lip-reader (page history and authors); lipreader (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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