answerer
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈɑːn.sə.ɹɚ/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈæn.sə.ɹɚ/
- Hyphenation: ans‧wer‧er
Noun
[edit]answerer (plural answerers)
- A person who, or thing that, answers or responds.
- Synonyms: replier, respondent, responder
- Antonyms: asker, questioner
- 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 […]
- 1892, Walt Whitman, “Song of the Answerer” in Leaves of Grass (abridged reprint of the 1892 edition), New York: Modern Library, 1921, p. 141,[1]
- 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.
- 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, chapter 2, in The Line of Beauty […], 1st US edition, New York, N.Y.: Bloomsbury Publishing, →ISBN:
- 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 […]
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]person who, or thing that, answers or responds
|