different between respondent vs answerer

English

Noun

respondent (plural respondents)

1. One who responds; one who replies.
2. (law) A defendant, especially in a case instituted by a petition or in appellate and divorce proceedings.
3. A person replying to a questionnaire.

Translations

See also

• correspondent

Adjective

respondent (comparative more respondent, superlative most respondent)

1. Disposed or expected to respond; answering; according; corresponding.
   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of the True Greatness of Kingdoms and Estates

     wealth […] respondent […] to payment and contributions

Crimean Tatar

Noun

respondent

1. respondent (in sense: the person who participates in research involving questionnaires).

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Czech

Noun

respondent m

1. respondent (one who responds to questions or questionnaire as part of research)

   Synonyms: dotazovaný, dotázaný

Further reading

• respondent in Kartotéka Novo?eského lexikálního archivu
• respondent in Akademický slovník cizích slov, 1995, at prirucka.ujc.cas.cz

Danish

Noun

respondent

1. respondent (one who replies to a questionnaire)

Declension

Synonyms

• svarperson

Latin

Verb

respondent

1. third-person plural present active indicative of responde?

English

Etymology

From answer +? -er.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???ns???/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?æns????/
• Hyphenation: ans?wer?er

Noun

answerer (plural answerers)

1. A person who, or thing that, answers or responds.

   Synonyms: respondent, responder

   • 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,^[1]

     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.

   • 2004, Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty, Bloomsbury, 2005, Chapter 2,

     He prayed that Leo didn't think he was a fool. The other men in Leo’s life, anonymous partners, answerers of ads, old boyfriends, old Pete, massed impatiently behind him […]

Translations

Anagrams

• reanswer