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English
Etymology
From Middle English respounse, respons, from Old French respons, respuns, responce, ultimately from the Latin respōnsum, a nominal use of the neuter form of respōnsus, the perfect passive participle of respondeō, from re (“again”) + spondeō (“promise”). Doublet of responsum.
Pronunciation
Noun
response (plural responses)
- An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
- The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
- An oracular answer.
- (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
- (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
- A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
- An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
- A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.
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Translations
an answer or reply
- Albanian: përgjigje (sq) f
- Armenian: պատասխան (hy) (patasxan)
- Azerbaijani: cavab (az)
- Bashkir: яуап (yawap)
- Belarusian: адка́з m (adkáz)
- Bengali: উত্তর (bn) (uttor), জবাব (bn) (jobab)
- Bulgarian: о́тговор (bg) m (ótgovor)
- Catalan: resposta (ca) f
- Chinese:
- Cantonese: 回答 (wui4 daap3)
- Mandarin: 回答 (zh) (huídá)
- Czech: odpověď (cs) f
- Danish: svar (da) n
- Dutch: antwoord (nl) n, respons (nl) f or n
- Esperanto: respondo (eo)
- Estonian: vastus
- Finnish: vastaus (fi)
- French: réponse (fr) f
- Old French: response f
- Georgian: პასუხი (ṗasuxi)
- German: Antwort (de) f, Entgegnung (de) f
- Gothic: 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌹 n (andawaurdi), 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌷𐌰𐍆𐍄𐍃 f (andahafts)
- Greek: απάντηση (el) f (apántisi)
- Ancient: ὑπόκρισις f (hupókrisis)
- Hebrew: תְּגוּבָה (he) f (tguvá), תְּשׁוּבָה (he) f (t'shuvá)
- Hindi: अनुक्रिया (hi) f (anukriyā), जवाब (hi) m (javāb), उत्तर (hi) m (uttar)
- Hungarian: válasz (hu)
- Ido: respondo (io)
- Italian: responso (it) n
- Japanese: 答え (ja) (こたえ, kotae), 解答 (ja) (かいとう, kaitō), 回答 (ja) (かいとう, kaitō)
- Kazakh: жауап (jauap)
- Khmer: ការឆ្លើយតប (kaa chlaəy tɑɑp), ពាក្យឆ្លើយ (piək chlaəy)
- Korean: 대답(對答) (ko) (daedap), 회답(回答) (hoedap)
- Kurdish:
- Central Kurdish: وەڵام (wellam)
- Kyrgyz: жооп (ky) (joop)
- Latin: responsum n
- Latvian: atbilde f
- Lithuanian: atsakymas (lt) m
- Macedonian: одговор (mk) m (odgovor)
- Malay: gerak balas, respons (ms)
- Maori: kupu whakahoki, kupu paremata, whakautu, whakahoki
- Mari:
- Eastern Mari: вашмут (vašmut)
- Mongolian:
- Cyrillic: хариу (mn) (xariu)
- Nepali: जवाफ (ne) (jawāph)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: svar (no) n
- Ottoman Turkish: جواب (cevab), اجابت (icabet)
- Persian:
- Dari: پَاسُخ (pāsux), جَوَاب (jawāb)
- Iranian Persian: پاسُخ (pâsox), جَواب (javâb)
- Plautdietsch: Auntwuat (nds) f
- Polish: odpowiedź (pl) f
- Portuguese: resposta (pt) f
- Romanian: răspuns (ro) n
- Russian: отве́т (ru) m (otvét)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: о̏дгово̄р m
- Roman: ȍdgovōr (sh) m
- Slovak: odpoveď f
- Slovene: odgovor (sl) m
- Spanish: respuesta (es) f
- Swedish: svar (sv) n, respons (sv) c
- Tajik: жавоб (žavob), посух (posux)
- Tatar: җавап (tt) (cawap)
- Thai: คำตอบ (th) (kam-dtɔ̀ɔp)
- Turkmen: jogap (tk)
- Ukrainian: ві́дповідь (uk) f (vídpovidʹ)
- Urdu: جَواب m (javāb)
- Uyghur: جاۋاب (jawab)
- Uzbek: javob (uz)
- Vietnamese: trả lời (vi)
- Welsh: ateb (cy) m,ymateb (cy) m
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the act of responding or replying
a reaction to a stimulus or provocation
References
Latin
Participle
respōnse
- vocative masculine singular of respōnsus
Middle French
Etymology
From Old French response.
Noun
response f (plural responses)
- response
Descendants
Old French
Etymology
Variant of the masculine noun respons (also used as the past participle of respondre), itself a semi-learned word derived from Latin responsus.
Noun
response oblique singular, f (oblique plural responses, nominative singular response, nominative plural responses)
- response
Descendants
References
Spanish
Verb
response
- inflection of responsar:
- first/third-person singular present subjunctive
- third-person singular imperative