Definition of "nonreader" [nonreader]

• A person who cannot or does not read, especially a child who takes a long time learning to read. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "When reading is what every student around you is supposed to be able to do, when the world is offered up in signs, pages, and screens of words, a nonreader is reminded constantly of what he is not good at."
• "Tzenkethi script fell across the hull like flowing water, which seemed like abstract art to a nonreader of the language."
• "Even my sister who is a definte nonreader, spends time reading books to her two children."