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What does the word answer mean?

Part of speech: verb transitive

To speak or act in response to; acknowledge; reply; especially, to reply favorably; retaliate; controvert; solve, as a riddle.

Part of speech: verb transitive

To be sufficient for; correspond to; atone for; expiate.

Part of speech: verb

To reply or respond; correspond; be sufficient.

Part of speech: verb

To be responsible; atone.

Part of speech: noun

A reply or response; refutation; retaliation; solution.

Usage examples for answer

Hollister made no answer. – The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
His first appeal to her brought the answer. – The Valley of Decision by Edith Wharton
If she was, why did she not answer now? – The White Sister by F. Marion Crawford