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# newsreader

«newsreader» in Mova's school dictionary: **a person who reads the news on television or radio** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 1 sentence of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a newsreader, newsreaders)

### meaning for a pupil

(UK, Australia) A newsreader is a person who reads the news on television or radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newsreader/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In media lessons and everyday life: the newsreader on the evening news. In the USA the usual word is «news anchor» or «newscaster».

### examples

- The newsreader announced the football results. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newsreader/#x1)
- My aunt works as a newsreader on local radio. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newsreader/#x2)
- The newsreader spoke clearly and calmly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newsreader/#x3)
- We pretended to be newsreaders in drama class. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newsreader/#x4)
- The newsreader smiled at the end of the bulletin. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newsreader/#x5)
- A newsreader must practise reading aloud. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newsreader/#x6)

### note

Compound: news + reader. US: news anchor, newscaster. Note: «news» is uncountable and takes a singular verb: the news is on.

### In the corpora

- [Newsreaders speak slowly and look serious about deaths to show respect for the people who died and their families.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/adult-life/51-scary-news-wars-disasters-and-how-to-talk-about-them/18/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «newsreader» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/N/newsreader/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.