Reading

See also: reading

English

Etymology

From Old English Rēadingas, the name of a tribe or clan of early Anglo-Saxon England whose capital was at Reading. Not related to reading.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɹɛdɪŋ/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• Rhymes: -ɛdɪŋ
• Homophone: redding

Proper noun

Reading

1. A surname.
2. A large town in Berkshire, England.

   A unitary authority and borough (Reading Borough Council) in Berkshire.

3. A number of places in the United States:
   1. A minor city in Lyon County, Kansas.
   2. A town in Middlesex County, Massachusetts.
      • 2025 January 22, Nick Stoico, “Newton city council approves generational tobacco ban, joining other Mass. towns”, in Boston Globe‎^[1], archived from the original on 23 January 2025:

        Newton joins Brookline and a dozen other towns that have adopted similar bans, including Belchertown, Chelsea, Concord, Malden, Manchester-by-the-Sea, Melrose, Needham, Pelham, Reading, Stoneham, Wakefield, and Winchester, according to the state Department of Public Health.

   3. A city and township in Hillsdale County, Michigan.
   4. An unincorporated community in Nobles County, Minnesota.
   5. A ghost town in Pike County, Missouri.
   6. A town in Schuyler County, New York.
   7. A city in Hamilton County, Ohio.
   8. An unincorporated community in Columbiana County, Ohio.
   9. A city, the county seat of Berks County, Pennsylvania, named after Reading in Berkshire, England.
      • 2018 October 21, Sam Janesch, “Meet Lloyd Smucker: Amish-born congressman seeking a second term on tax cuts and conservative record”, in Lancaster Online‎^[2], archived from the original on 4 September 2022:

        His district — which covers all but seven eastern Lancaster County municipalities along with Reading in Berks County and parts of western Chester County — was reconfigured to to ^[sic] drop Berks and Chester while expanding to all of Lancaster County and adding southern York County.

   10. A town in Windsor County, Vermont.
   11. A number of other townships, listed under Reading Township.
4. A small town in Saint James parish, Jamaica.

Derived terms

• North Reading

Translations

the town

• Bulgarian: Рединг (Reding)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 雷丁 (Léidīng)

• Danish: Reading
• Dutch: Reading
• Esperanto: Reading
• French: Reading (fr)
• German: Reading (de)
• Greek: Ρέντινγκ (el) n (Réntingk)
• Macedonian: Рединг m (Reding)
• Polish: Reading n
• Telugu: రెడ్డిఙ్ (reḍḍiṅ)

Anagrams

• Dearing, dearing, deraign, gradine, grained, inraged