/rɪˈspɒns/
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Translation
What you say or do after someone asks you something or something happens.
Word origin
From Latin respondere, to answer, from re, back, and spondere, to promise.
- Origin
- Latin
- Root
- respondere
- English cognates
- respond, responsible
Grammar
Gender
Pluralresponses
Examples
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A "response" is an answer to a message or question.
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Here "response" means how she reacted to what happened.
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"In response to" is a formal way to say as an answer to.
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