Definitions for answers

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answers an·swer

Spelling: [an-ser, ahn-]

IPA: /ˈæn sər, ˈɑn-/

Answers is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 169 anagrams from letters in answers (aenrssw).

Definitions for answers

noun

1. a spoken or written reply or response to a question, request, letter, etc.:
2. a correct response to a question asked to test one's knowledge.
3. an equivalent or approximation:
4. an action serving as a reply or response:
5. a solution to a problem, especially in mathematics.
6. a reply to a charge or accusation.
7. Law. a pleading in which a party responds to his or her opponent's statement of position, especially the defendant's reply to the plaintiff's complaint.
8. Music. the entrance of a fugue subject, usually on the dominant, either slightly altered or transposed exactly after each presentation in the tonic.

Idioms

1. answer the helm, Nautical. (of a vessel) to maneuver or remain steady according to the position of the rudder.

Verb phrases

1. answer back, to reply impertinently or rudely:

verb (used with object)

1. to speak or write in response to; reply to:
2. to act or move in response to:
3. to solve or present a solution of.
4. to serve or fulfill:
5. to discharge (a responsibility, claim, debt, etc.).
6. to conform or correspond to; be similar or equivalent to:
7. to atone for; make amends for.
8. to reply or respond favorably to:

verb (used without object)

1. to speak or write in response; make answer; reply.
2. to respond by an act or motion:
3. to act or suffer in consequence of (usually followed by for).
4. to be or declare oneself responsible or accountable (usually followed by for):
5. to be satisfactory or serve (usually followed by for):
6. to conform; correspond (usually followed by to):

Origin of answers

before 900; Middle English andswerien, Old English andswerian, andswarian derivative of andswaru an answer, equivalent to and- opposite, facing (cf. Examples for answers

Yet financialism can leave voters feeling queasy, and candidates grasping for answers.

In my search for answers about who I was, I pored over religious texts in search of enlightenment.

Occasionally biscuits and game have been mentioned in the answers.

Her phone rings at least once an hour with questions from journalists, which she answers in Arabic, English, and sometimes French.

All these answers, were in truth no replies at all, for they did not disprove the facts.

At just three pages long, the memo leaves more questions than it answers.

answers not dissimilar have been given before by other artists in like case.

Hitchcock arrives about ten o'clock, reads his mail, and answers the few phone calls he gets.

In his reply he placed, point by point, the answers in the scales along with his own accusations.

I now send you copies of my letters to my uncles: with their answers.