noun
Meaning 1
A person who, or thing that, answers or responds.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 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, 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.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: replier, respondent, responder
Antonyms: asker, questioner