response

English Online Dictionary. What means response‎? What does response mean?

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

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɒns/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹɪˈspɑns/
• Rhymes: -ɒns

Noun

response (plural responses)

2. An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
4. The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
5. An oracular answer.
6. (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
7. (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
8. A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
9. An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL.
10. A reaction to a stimulus or provocation.

Synonyms

• reaction

Derived terms

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Translations

References

• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “response”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.

Jamaican Creole

Etymology

From English responsible

Adjective

response

1. Responsible

Latin

Participle

respōnse

1. vocative masculine singular of respōnsus

Middle French

Etymology

From Old French response.

Noun

response f (plural responses)

1. response

Descendants

• French: réponse

Old French

Alternative forms

• responce
• respounce (Anglo-Norman)
• respounse (Anglo-Norman)
• respunse (Anglo-Norman)

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)

1. response

Descendants

• → English: response
• French: réponse

References

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (response, supplement)
• respuns on the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub (the Anglo-Norman On-Line Hub lists the feminine noun repunse under the masculine noun respuns)

Spanish

Verb

response

1. inflection of responsar:
   1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
   2. third-person singular imperative