ENQUIRER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does enquirer mean? 

• ENQUIRER (noun)
  The noun ENQUIRER has 1 sense:

1. someone who asks a question

  Familiarity information: ENQUIRER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ENQUIRER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who asks a question

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

asker; enquirer; inquirer; querier; questioner

Hypernyms ("enquirer" is a kind of...):

speaker; talker; utterer; verbaliser; verbalizer (someone who expresses in language; someone who talks (especially someone who delivers a public speech or someone especially garrulous))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "enquirer"):

cross-examiner; cross-questioner (someone who questions a witness carefully (especially about testimony given earlier))

examiner; quizzer; tester (someone who administers a test to determine your qualifications)

inquisitor; interrogator (a questioner who is excessively harsh)

interviewer (a person who conducts an interview)

canvasser; headcounter; poll taker; pollster (someone who conducts surveys of public opinion)

Derivation:

enquire (conduct an inquiry or investigation of)

enquire (address a question to and expect an answer from)

 Context examples 

All that she could tell she told most gladly, but the all was little for one who had been there, and unsatisfactory for such an enquirer as Mrs Smith, who had already heard, through the short cut of a laundress and a waiter, rather more of the general success and produce of the evening than Anne could relate, and who now asked in vain for several particulars of the company.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)