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verb (used without object)
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to reply or answer in words: to respond briefly to a question.
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to make a return by some action as if in answer: to respond generously to a charity drive.
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to react favorably.
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Physiology. to exhibit some action or effect as if in answer; react: Nerves respond to a stimulus.
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EXPANDto correspond (usually followed by to).
verb (used with object)
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to say in answer; reply.
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Architecture. a half pier, pilaster, or the like projecting from a wall as a support for a lintel or an arch, the other side of which is supported on a free-standing pier or column.
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Ecclesiastical.
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a short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
Origin:
1350–1400; (noun) Middle English: responsory < Old French, derivative of respondre to respond < Latin respondēre to promise in return, reply, answer, equivalent to re- re- + spondēre to pledge, promise (see sponsor); (v.) < Latin respondēre
1350–1400; (noun) Middle English: responsory < Old French, derivative of respondre to respond < Latin respondēre to promise in return, reply, answer, equivalent to re- re- + spondēre to pledge, promise (see sponsor); (v.) < Latin respondēre
Related forms
o·ver·re·spond, verb
un·re·spond·ing, adjective
Synonyms
1. rejoin. 2. rise, react, reply.
1. rejoin. 2. rise, react, reply.
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Word Origin & History
respond
c.1300, respound, from O.Fr. respondere "respond, correspond," from L. respondere "respond, answer to, promise in return," from re- "back" + spondere "to pledge" (see spondee). Modern spelling and pronunciation is from c.1600.
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