answer
react verbally
How often you will meet it
Rank 368 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 54,477 times across 139,755 chapters — 0.026% of every word in the library.
It belongs to the first 500 words, the band worth learning before any other.
What it means
verb
- react verbally also: reply, respond She didn't want to answeranswer the question
- respond to a signal answer the dooranswer the telephone
- give the correct answer or solution to answer a questionanswer the riddle
- understand the meaning of also: resolve The question concerning the meaning of life cannot be answered
- give a defence or refutation of (a charge) or in (an argument) The defendant answered to all the charges of the prosecution
- be liable or accountable She must answer for her actions
answer in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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Don't say anything for answer just now.
Gloria and Treeless Street · Annie Hamilton Donnell · Chapter 1
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Two months later an answer was received.
A Knight of the White Cross · G. A. (George Alfred) Henty · Chapter 1
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It is to this charge he now feels he must make answer.
The Red Record Tabulated Statistics · Ida B. Wells-Barnett · Chapter 1
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He did me the honor to repeat it aloud; but the Minister's answer was not heard.
Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 08, May 21, 1870 · Various · Chapter 1
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The boy nodded his head sidewise toward his own home, and the girl silently nodded hers up and down in answer.
The Heart of the Hills · John, Jr. Fox · Chapter 1