Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who answers; in school disputations, the respondent, that is, one who takes the initiative by propounding a thesis which he undertakes to maintain and defend against the objections of the opponents. See
respondent .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun One who answers.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun a person or thing that
answers orresponds
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who responds
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Examples
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The other answerer is correct in that you can buy a real one for around 100.00.
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568 – 569 In the Socratic method, the answerer is the one saying things
Notes on Plato's Alcibiades Jonathan Aquino 2009
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568 – 569 In the Socratic method, the answerer is the one saying things
Archive 2009-05-01 Jonathan Aquino 2009
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Alcibiades: I should say, Socrates, that the answerer was the speaker.
The First Alcibiades 2006
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ALCIBIADES: I should say, Socrates, that the answerer was the speaker.
Alcibiades I circa 427-347 BC. Spurious and doubtful works Plato
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The second "answerer"here does a decent job of laying out the case in the general sense, not legal for those allegations and concerns in one place.
Will this doom the Huckabee campaign? Ann Althouse 2007
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Some questions have already led to research papers naming both the asker and "answerer" as co-authors.
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Still, they ask, and at that point the asker grants the answerer immunity to tell the whole truth.
Parents Behaving Badly Scott Gummer 2011
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Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times Homa Sabet Tavangar 2011
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Be a treasure to the poor, an admonisher to the rich, an answerer of the cry of the needy, a preserver of the sanctity of thy pledge.
Homa Sabet Tavangar: In Unity Is Our Security: Baha'i Wisdom For Violent Times Homa Sabet Tavangar 2011
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