Definitions for answer

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answer an·swer

Spelling: [an-ser, ahn-]

IPA: /ˈæn sər, ˈɑn-/

Answer is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 134 anagrams from letters in answer (aenrsw).

Definitions for answer

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 answer

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

He did apply, and at the end of a month, no answer had been returned to his communication.

They already know the answer, but they know by feigning ignorance they can create all this debate about it.

And why would its ostensible spokesperson refuse to answer yes/no questions about them?

Take the chief metric of the war in Vietnam—body counts, which ultimately did not answer whether the strategy was working.

Some questions we may never know the answer to: Was Jay Z doing something he shouldn't have been doing?

Ask the poor fisherman at the gates, who has been to him as a brother; and he will answer 'Anaxagoras.'

I received no answer, and then I turned to the congregation.

No answer coming, he peered through the window, but saw no one.

Aspasia was next called to answer the charges brought against her.

This reporter knocked at the Wilkins home on Tuesday morning but received neither an answer nor the business end of a shotgun.