“readest” is a form of
read
UK /ɹiːd/ · US /ɹid/ verb, noun, proper noun
Forms reads reading readen redd readest readst readeth
- verb (transitive or intransitive) To look at and interpret letters or other information that is written. “Have you read this book?”
- verb (ergative, of text) To be understood or physically read in a specific way. “Arabic reads right to left.”
- verb (transitive, metonymic) To read a work or works written by the named author. “At the moment I'm reading Milton.”
- verb (transitive or intransitive) To speak aloud words or other information that is written. (often construed with a to phrase or an indirect object) “He read us a passage from his new book.”
- verb (transitive) To interpret, or infer a meaning, significance, thought, intention, etc., from. “She read my mind and promptly rose to get me a glass of water.”
- verb To consist of certain text. “On the door hung a sign that read "No admittance".”
- verb (ergative) To substitute a corrected piece of text in place of an erroneous one; used to introduce an emendation of a text.
- verb (by extension, ironic or humorous, usually imperative) Used to introduce a blunter, actually intended meaning. “Our school focuses primarily on the liberal arts (read "useless degrees").”
- noun A reading or an act of reading, especially of an actor's part of a play or a piece of stored data. “I had a read of the evening papers.”
- noun (in combination) Something to be read; a written work. “His thrillers are always a gripping read.”
- noun A person's interpretation or impression of something. “What's your read of the current political situation?”
- noun (at first especially in the black LGBTQ community) An instance of reading (“calling attention to someone's flaws; a taunt or insult”).
- noun (biochemistry) The identification of a specific sequence of genes in a genome or bases in a nucleic acid string.
- proper noun A surname from Old English, a less common spelling variant of Reid.
- proper noun A male given name transferred from the surname.
- proper noun A village and civil parish in Ribble Valley district, Lancashire, England (OS grid ref SD7634).
- proper noun A township in Clayton County, Iowa, United States.
- proper noun A township in Butler County, Nebraska, United States.
- proper noun An unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States.
Synonyms
interpret make out make sense of understand scan read aloud read out read out loud speak say run sic pro copy hear receive learn study clock take register show record translate
Etymology
From Middle English reden, from Old English rǣdan (“to counsel, advise, consult; interpret, read”), from Proto-West Germanic *rādan, from Proto-Germanic *rēdaną (“advise, counsel”), from Proto-Indo-European *Hreh₁dʰ- (“to arrange”).
Cognate with Scots rede, red (“to advise, counsel, decipher, read”), Saterland Frisian räide (“to advise, counsel”), West Frisian riede (“to advise, counsel”), Dutch raden (“to advise; guess”), German raten (“to advise; guess”), Danish råde (“to advise”), Swedish råda (“to advise, counsel”), Persian رده (rade, “to order, to arrange, class”). In West Germanic the verb had a sense “interpret”, which developed further into “interpret letters” in English and “interpret by intuition, guess” on the continent. Compare rede.
From Middle English redde (simple past), red, rad (past participle), from Old English rǣdde (simple past), (ġe)rǣded (past participle), conjugations of rǣdan (“to read”); see above.
English and Scottish surname, variant of Reed.
Webster’s 1913
- noun Rennet. See 3d Reed. [Prov. Eng.]
- verb To advise; to counsel. [Obs.] See Rede.
- verb To interpret; to explain; as, to read a riddle.
- verb To give advice or counsel. [Obs.]
Etymology [OE. reden, ræden, AS. rædan to read, advice, counsel, fr. ræd advise, counsel, rædan (imperf. reord) to advice, counsel, guess; akin to D. raden to advise, G. raten, rathen, Icel. raedha, Goth. redan (in comp.), and perh. also to Skr. radh to succeed. sq. root116. Cf. Riddle.]
Etymology [AS. ræd counsel, fr. rædan to counsel. See Read, v. t.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “read”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details