QUESTIONER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does questioner mean? 

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

1. someone who asks a question

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• QUESTIONER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who asks a question

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

asker; enquirer; inquirer; querier; questioner

Hypernyms ("questioner" 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 "questioner"):

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:

question (pose a question)

 Context examples 

“What is your state of mind, Twenty Eight?” said the questioner in spectacles.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

You are a very close questioner.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

"Which, if you like, you have, in my opinion, a right to keep, both from St. John and every other questioner," remarked Diana.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He jerked his shoulder petulantly away from the grip of his questioner.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“You are quite happy yourself?” said the questioner, nodding encouragement.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Jane, I don't like cavillers or questioners; besides, there is something truly forbidding in a child taking up her elders in that manner.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

“This does you credit, Twenty Eight,” returned the questioner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“I have no doubt, Twenty Eight,” returned the questioner, “that the gentleman you refer to feels very strongly—as we all must—what you have so properly said. We will not detain you.”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

“Is there anything at all on your mind now?” said the questioner.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Several gentlemen were much affected; and a third questioner, forcing himself to the front, inquired with extreme feeling: “How do you find the beef?”

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)