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readership

readership noun: the collected readers of a publication.

Noun (1)

readership (countable and uncountable, plural readerships)

  1. The collected readers of a publication.
    • The village newspaper has a readership of only 200 people.
  2. The role or office of a reader.
    • the Nora Chadwick Readership in Celtic Studies

Noun (2) capitalized: Readership

Readership (plural Readerships)

  1. The office or position of a Reader

readership meaning in Marathi, Kannada, Nepali and Indonesian

readership in Marathi

वाचकवर्ग

readership in Kannada

ಓದುಗರ ಸಂಖ್ಯೆ, ವಾಚಕವೃಂದ, ಓದುಗರ ಎಣಿ, ಓದುಗರ ಎಣಿಕೆ, ರೀಡರ್ ಹುದ್ದೆ, ಬೋಧಕ ಸ್ಥಾನ

readership in Nepali

पाठकवर्ग

readership in Indonesian

collected readers of a publication
kepembacaan

Examples of readership in a sentence

  • “Cross your fingers that the readership loves it.” Joy crossed her fingers.
  • Word of mouth among the one-handed readership would not have been good.
  • The Hegelian master, for all his violence and terror, still requires literature, names, memory, and readerships—in other words, the public sphere.

All 13 example sentences with readership

Forms of readership

pluralreaderships
pluralReaderships

Plural of readership: readerships

Origin of readership

From reader + -ship.

Questions about readership

What does readership mean?
Readership means the collected readers of a publication.
What is readership in Marathi?
Readership in Marathi is वाचकवर्ग. See Readership meaning in Marathi.
What part of speech is readership?
Readership is a noun.
What is the plural of readership?
The plural of readership is readerships.

Words near readership in the dictionary

  1. readerless
  2. readerlessness
  3. readerly
  4. readers
  5. readers-writers problem
  6. readership
  7. readerships
  8. readest
  9. readeth
  10. Readett
  11. Readfield

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: readership (page history and authors); Readership (page history and authors); readership (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); readership (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); readership (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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