Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who inquires, searches, or examines; a seeker; an investigator. Also enquirer.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • noun One who enquires.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun someone who asks a question

Etymologies

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to inquire + -er

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Examples

  • Nobody, but we two, knew that the inquirer was the Count de St. Alyre.

    The Room in the Dragon Volant 2003

  • The inquirer is a little man with a thin face, and a voice which might be disagreeable, were it not mellowed by good nature.

    A Tramp's Wallet stored by an English goldsmith during his wanderings in Germany and France William Duthie

  • The inquirer was a Scotchman about thirty years of age; he wore dark glasses and was decently clad; he had been discharged from St. Bartholomew's

    London's Underworld Thomas Holmes 1882

  • Nobody, but we two, knew that the inquirer was the Count de St. Alyre.

    The Room in the Dragon Volant Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu 1843

  • 'Don't stop to ask questions, cast-iron head,' replied the long man, with great disgust, taking it for granted that the inquirer was a footman; 'but open the door.'

    The Pickwick Papers Charles Dickens 1841

  • 'Don't stop to ask questions, cast-iron head,' replied the long man, with great disgust, taking it for granted that the inquirer was a footman; 'but open the door.'

    The Pickwick papers 1836

  • To declare the truth about matters of high interest which a man honors and loves, among wise men who love him, need occasion no fear or faltering in his mind; but to carry on an argument when you are yourself only a hesitating inquirer, which is my condition, is a dangerous and slippery thing; and the danger is not that I shall be laughed at (of which the fear would be childish), but that I shall miss the truth where I have most need to be sure of my footing, and drag my friends after me in my fall.

    The Republic by Plato ; translated by Benjamin Jowett 2006

  • To declare the truth about matters of high interest which a man honors and loves, among wise men who love him, need occasion no fear or faltering in his mind; but to carry on an argument when you are yourself only a hesitating inquirer, which is my condition, is a dangerous and slippery thing; and the danger is not that I shall be laughed at (of which the fear would be childish), but that I shall miss the truth where I have most need to be sure of my footing, and drag my friends after me in my fall.

    The Republic of Plato Plato 1763

  • Fifthly, that may perhaps be of some assistance to an inquirer which is the ruin and destruction of a believer; viz., a brief review, as in passage, of the opinions now received, with their varieties and sects, that they may touch and rouse the intellect and no more.

    Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History 2005

  • Fifthly, that may perhaps be of some assistance to an inquirer which is the ruin and destruction of a believer; viz., a brief review, as in passage, of the opinions now received, with their varieties and sects, that they may touch and rouse the intellect and no more.

    Preparative toward a Natural and Experimental History 2005

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