"reading material" meaning in English

See reading material in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Forms: reading materials [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} reading material (countable and uncountable, plural reading materials)
  1. Anything produced for the purpose of being read; a collective term for books, magazines, newspapers, etc. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Books Translations (anything produced for reading): oxu materialları (Azerbaijani), 讀物 /读物 (dúwù) (Chinese Mandarin), læsestof [neuter] (Danish), lukeminen (Finnish), luettava (Finnish), lukemisto (Finnish), matériel de lecture [masculine] (French), Lesestoff [masculine] (German), olvasnivaló (Hungarian), olvasmány (Hungarian), materiale di lettura [masculine] (Italian), 読み物 (Japanese), lesestoff [neuter] (Norwegian Bokmål), lesestoff [neuter] (Norwegian Nynorsk), lektura [feminine] (Polish), material de leitura [masculine] (Portuguese), материа́л для чте́ния (materiál dlja čténija) [masculine] (Russian), material de lectura [masculine] (Spanish), матеріа́л для чита́ння (materiál dlja čytánnja) [masculine] (Ukrainian)

Inflected forms

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            "Literature",
            "Mass media",
            "Culture",
            "Entertainment",
            "Writing",
            "Media",
            "Society",
            "Human behaviour",
            "Language",
            "Communication",
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            "Human",
            "Fundamental"
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        "Anything produced for the purpose of being read; a collective term for books, magazines, newspapers, etc."
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          "purpose"
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          "read",
          "read"
        ],
        [
          "book",
          "book"
        ],
        [
          "magazine",
          "magazine"
        ],
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          "newspaper",
          "newspaper"
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          "code": "az",
          "lang": "Azerbaijani",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "word": "oxu materialları"
        },
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          "lang": "Chinese Mandarin",
          "roman": "dúwù",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "word": "讀物 /读物"
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        {
          "code": "da",
          "lang": "Danish",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
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          "word": "læsestof"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "word": "lukeminen"
        },
        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "word": "luettava"
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        {
          "code": "fi",
          "lang": "Finnish",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "word": "lukemisto"
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          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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          "lang": "German",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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          ],
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        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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        },
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          "code": "hu",
          "lang": "Hungarian",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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        },
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          "code": "it",
          "lang": "Italian",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "materiale di lettura"
        },
        {
          "code": "ja",
          "lang": "Japanese",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "word": "読み物"
        },
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          "code": "nb",
          "lang": "Norwegian Bokmål",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
          "word": "lesestoff"
        },
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          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "tags": [
            "neuter"
          ],
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          "code": "pl",
          "lang": "Polish",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "tags": [
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          "word": "lektura"
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          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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          ],
          "word": "material de leitura"
        },
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          "lang": "Russian",
          "roman": "materiál dlja čténija",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
          "tags": [
            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "материа́л для чте́ния"
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          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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          "word": "material de lectura"
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          "lang": "Ukrainian",
          "roman": "materiál dlja čytánnja",
          "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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            "masculine"
          ],
          "word": "матеріа́л для чита́ння"
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      "code": "az",
      "lang": "Azerbaijani",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "word": "oxu materialları"
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      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "word": "lukemisto"
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      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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      ],
      "word": "matériel de lecture"
    },
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      "code": "de",
      "lang": "German",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "Lesestoff"
    },
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      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "word": "olvasnivaló"
    },
    {
      "code": "hu",
      "lang": "Hungarian",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "word": "olvasmány"
    },
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      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "materiale di lettura"
    },
    {
      "code": "ja",
      "lang": "Japanese",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "word": "読み物"
    },
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      "code": "nb",
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      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "tags": [
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      "word": "lesestoff"
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      "code": "nn",
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      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "tags": [
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      "code": "pl",
      "lang": "Polish",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "tags": [
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      ],
      "word": "lektura"
    },
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      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "material de leitura"
    },
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      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
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      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "материа́л для чте́ния"
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      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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      "word": "material de lectura"
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      "code": "uk",
      "lang": "Ukrainian",
      "roman": "materiál dlja čytánnja",
      "sense": "anything produced for reading",
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      ],
      "word": "матеріа́л для чита́ння"
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