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Plural of answer

regular plural

The plural of answer is answers.

Forms of answer

Singularanswer /ˈɑːn.sə/
Pluralanswers /ˈɑːn.səz/
Countablecountable

Answers in a sentence

  • It answers the need.
  • The student put down junk for answers just to finish his homework more quickly.From the entry junk
  • You have 30 minutes for the quiz. We’ll take up the answers at 1 o'clock.From the entry take up
  • The answers intelligence services seek are often drowned in the flood of information they can now gather.From the entry drown
  • Take care when guessing, since problems do not always have cut-and-dried answers.From the entry cut and dried

Meaning of answer

  1. noun A response or reply; something said or done in reaction to a statement or question.
  2. noun A solution to a problem.
  3. noun Someone or something that fills a similar role or position.

Full definition of answer

Questions about the plural of answer

What is the plural of answer?
The plural of answer is answers.
Is answer countable?
Answer is a countable noun.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: answer (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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