responser
Syllables: re·spons·er/ɹɪˈspɒn.sə/US/ɹɪˈspɔn.səɹ/
responser noun: one who responds, or gives responses.
Noun
responser (plural responsers)
- One who responds, or gives responses.
- In the evening two responsers are appointed on the part of the bride, and as many for the bridegroom: they are expected to answer such questions as the Qází may think proper to ask.1837, The Calcutta Christian Observer, volume 6, page 135
- One might have expected more fuss against this new direction from the most prominent reader-responsers themselves. Instead, the only complaints have come from prominent literary generalists[…].2009, John Maynard, Literary Intention, Literary Interpretations, and Readers, Broadview Press, →ISBN, →Google Books, page 301
Forms of responser
| plural | responsers |
|---|
Origin of responser
From response + -er. First attested in 1791.
Words that rhyme with responser
Questions about responser
- What does responser mean?
- Responser means one who responds, or gives responses.
- What part of speech is responser?
- Responser is a noun.
- How do you pronounce responser?
- Responser is pronounced /ɹɪˈspɒn.sə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of responser?
- The plural of responser is responsers.
Words near responser in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: responser (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-responsor.wav.
Cite this entry: “responser.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/responser. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.