Dictionary Entry

answer

Part of SpeechnounPronunciation/AN-sir/Used In Literature ↓

A response or solution to a question, problem, or situation.

In a Sentence

“She raised her hand to give the answer to the teacher's question.”

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Origin

Middle English from Old French 'answer', from Latin 'respondere'.

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Poetry examples for “answer”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And I would turn and answer
Among the springing thyme,

Jaspar come back--Jaspar come home again----
Jaspar--why don’t ’e answer? There, now there!
Have that to warm yer. Oh, ye’ll soon come round,

They ask and there is not an answer;
Says I, I will 'list for a lancer,

And I would turn and answer
Among the springing thyme,

Now singing shrill, and scolding oft between;
Scolds answer foul-mouth'd scolds; bad neighbourhood, I ween.

And Ulfius and Brastias answer’d, ‘Ay.’
Then Bedivere, the first of all his knights

It cannot be but some gross error lies
In this report, this answer of a king,

“Then follow me, the Prince,” 220
I answer’d, “ each be hero in his turn !
Seven and yet one, like shadows in a dream.—

A present, a great labor of the loom ;
And therewithal an answer vague as wind :

but forlorn and reluctant breath,
Heard, beheld, and his soul made answer,
and communed aloud with the sea.