readership

See also: Readership

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

English reader

Proto-Germanic *skapjaną

Proto-Germanic *-skapiz

Proto-West Germanic *-skapi

Old English -sċiepe

Middle English -schipe

English -ship

English readership

From reader + -ship.

Pronunciation

• Audio (US):

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Noun

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

Translations

collected readers of a publication

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 讀者群 / 读者群 (dúzhěqún)

• Czech: čtenářstvo (cs) n
• Dutch: lezerspubliek (nl) n
• Finnish: lukijakunta (fi)
• French: lectorat (fr) m
• Georgian: მკითხველები pl (mḳitxvelebi)
• German: Leserschaft (de) f
• Greek: αναγνωσιμότητα (el) f (anagnosimótita)
• Hebrew: קהל־קוראים m (khal korˈʔim)
• Hungarian: olvasóközönség (hu)
• Indonesian: kepembacaan
• Portuguese: leitores
• Russian: читательская аудитория (čitatelʹskaja auditorija), аудитория (ru) f (auditorija), круг чита́телей (krug čitátelej)
• Serbo-Croatian: čitatéljstvo (sh) n
• Spanish: lectoría f, lectores m pl
• Swahili: usomaji
• Swedish: läsekrets (sv) c
• Welsh: darllenyddiaeth f