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noun/ˈɑːn.sə//ˈæn.sə//ˈæn.sɚ/
  1. 1

    A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.

    • Her answer to his proposal was a slap in the face.
  2. 2

    A solution to a problem.

    • There is no simple answer to corruption.
    • Violence is not the answer to disagreements.
  3. 3

    Someone or something that fills a similar role or position.

    • Anti-pornography crusader Mary Whitehouse, who successfully brought London's Gay News to trial recently on charges of "blasphemy," is emerging as England's answer to Anita Bryant.
  4. 4

    A document filed in response to a complaint, responding to each point raised in the complaint and raising counterpoints.

verb/ˈɑːn.sə//ˈæn.sə//ˈæn.sɚ/
  1. 1

    To make a reply or response to.ambitransitive

    • He answered the question.
  2. 2

    To speak in defence against; to reply to in defence.transitive

    • to answer a charge or accusation
  3. 3

    To respond to a call by someone at a door or telephone, or other similar piece of equipment.ambitransitive

    • She answered the door.
    • Nobody answered when I knocked on the door.
  4. 4

    To suit a need or purpose satisfactorily.ambitransitive

    • It answers the need.
  5. 5

    To be accountable or responsible; to make amends.

    • The man must answer to his employer for the money entrusted to his care.
    • He has a lot to answer for.
  6. 6

    To file a document in response to a complaint.

  7. 7

    To correspond to; to be in harmony with; to be in agreement with.

    • 1775, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, The Duenna, Dublin: G. Burnet et al., 1794, Act II, Scene 2, p. 25, Egad, I wish she had answer’d her picture as well.
  8. 8

    To be opposite, or to act in opposition.

    • The windows answering each other, we could just discern the glowing horizon through them […]
  9. 9

    To be or act in conformity, or by way of accommodation, correspondence, relation, or proportion; to conform; to correspond; to suit; usually with to.

    • […] that the time may haue all ſhadow, and ſilence in it: and the place anſwere to conuenience
    • If this but answer to my just belief, / I’ll well remember you.
  10. 10

    To respond to satisfactorily; to meet successfully by way of explanation, argument, or justification; to refute.

    • […] no man was able to answer him a word, neither durst any man from that day forth ask him any more questions.
    • These shifts refuted, answer thy appellant / Though by his blindness maim’d for high attempts, / Who now defies thee thrice to single fight,

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