ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Answerer

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Pronunciation /ˈɑːn.sə.ɹɚ/ · Part of speech noun

Quick meaning: Answerer is a noun meaning A person who, or thing that, answers or responds.

Meaning

A person who, or thing that, answers or responds.

Example Sentences

He prayed that Leo didn't think he was a fool. The other men in Leo’s life, anonymous partners, answerers of ads, old boyfriends, old Pete, massed impatiently behind him […]
1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of the Answerer” in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: Modern Library, 1921, p. 141, Now list to my morning’s romanza, I tell the signs of the Answerer, To the cities and farms I sing as they spread in the sunshine before me.
1714, Jonathan Swift, The Publick Spirit of the Whigs, London: John Morphew, in Bertrand A. Goldgar and Ian Gadd (eds.), English Political Writings 1711-1714, The Cambridge Edition of the Works of Jonathan Swift, Cambridge University Press, 2008, p. 256, It is a very unfair Thing in any Writer to employ his Ignorance and Malice together, because it gives his Answerer double Work […]

Word Forms

Synonyms for answerer

Depending on context, synonyms include replier, respondent, responder.

Antonyms for answerer

Common opposites include asker, questioner.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include responder, respondent, responser, respondee, responsal, seroresponder.

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