Meanings
reading, way of deciphering a text that is ambiguous (e.g. because it lacks diacritics, uses nonstandard spelling, is written in an obscure language or illegible hand etc.)
Konsonantenschriften lassen oft mehrere Lesarten zu.Consonant scripts (abjads) often allow for different readings.
textual variant, version (any of the ways in which a phrase has been recorded in different manuscripts of the same text)
Von allen Lesarten scheint mir diese die ursprüngliche zu sein.It seems to me that of all versions this is the original one.
figurativereading, interpretation
Nach meiner Lesart meint der Autor hier etwas ganz anderes.In my interpretation the author means something entirely different here.
version; construal
Beim Vergleich der beiden Lesarten ergaben sich große Unterschiede.