questioner
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈkwɛstʃənər/
- Formal
:
preguntante
- First, the questioner must identify him or herself.
- questioner and answerer
- role of questioner
- questioner asked
what I say to the first questioner tonight.
- what I say to the first questioner tonight.
- First, the questioner must identify him or herself.
- And again, my answer is a little bit similar to what I said to the first questioner tonight.
- And what do you say to a questioner like that?
- This is as a questioner, I'm I'm trying to achieve asymmetry of power and I'm winning.
- So I would, I would have to kind of advise that the questioner watch that video on the instance of kind of farmers who are nice to their animals.
- This was a candidate incapable of answering, answering hard questions over and over, trying to dodge long enough to ideally distract the questioner.
- We're going to go to the audience and as we're setting up that and Jackie, can you have the first questioner stand up?
Examples
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The men listened in silence, only the questioner occasionally interjecting with another query.
Fiction book (1994) -
None, however, presented a variety of sources that would enable the questioner to make a decision.
Academic text (2014) -
When the subject came up, I found it best to ask which team my questioner preferred.
Fiction book (2000) -
When I finished my tale, the first questioner asked whether I believe in cold fusion.
Academic text (1994) -
I think the questioner is making a valid point, and that a nation's foreign policy... ...should not be determined by narrow commercial interests.
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Students learned to be critical questioners, tying the knowledge shared to their own interests and experiences.
Academic text (1998) -
The teacher acted as a guide, a facilitator: a questioner among questioners.
Academic text (1993) -
Aaron Wildavsky was the ultimate questioner of "received wisdom" and constantly the seeker of truth in the public arena.
Academic text (2010) -
During the panel discussion, the questioner raised an insightful inquiry about the topic.
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The teacher asked the students to be respectful to the questioner during the Q&A session.
Synonyms
86
3.0
A person who asks questions to get information in a job or news interview
43
6.8
A person who asks someone many questions to get information during an investigation
20
3.2
A person who asks questions to get information
4
3.3
A person who wants an answer to a question
Someone or something that asks a question to get information
Antonyms
How Inquisitive
68
3.6
86
3.0
- Formal
23
3.2
305
2.8
228
1.0
84
3.4
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Questioner comes from the part question, which means 'to ask', and the ending -er meaning 'one who', like in teacher or driver. So a questioner is a person who asks questions in a meeting or a public setting.