INQUIRER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does inquirer mean? 

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

1. someone who asks a question

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

 Dictionary entry details 

• INQUIRER (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Someone who asks a question

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Synonyms:

asker; enquirer; inquirer; querier; questioner

Hypernyms ("inquirer" 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 "inquirer"):

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:

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

 Context examples 

The ambition of the inquirer seemed to limit itself to the annihilation of those visions on which my interest in science was chiefly founded.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I am, of course, a mere student, said I, with a fatuous smile, hardly more, I might say, than an earnest inquirer.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He rushed fiercely forward, and the inquirer flitted away into the darkness.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I read with ardour those works, so full of genius and discrimination, which modern inquirers have written on these subjects.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

With a confusion of ideas only to be accounted for by my extreme youth and my want of a guide on such matters, I had retrod the steps of knowledge along the paths of time and exchanged the discoveries of recent inquirers for the dreams of forgotten alchemists.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)