Noun

1. An answer or reply, or something in the nature of an answer or reply.
2. The act of responding or replying; reply: as, to speak in response to a question.
3. An oracular answer.
4. (liturgics) A verse, sentence, phrase, or word said or sung by the choir or congregation in sequence or reply to the priest or officiant.
5. (liturgics) A versicle or anthem said or sung during or after a lection; a respond or responsory.
6. A reply to an objection in formal disputation.
7. An online advertising performance metric representing one click-through from an online ad to its destination URL

Quotations

• 1338: Robert Mannyng, Middle English Chronicle

  What was his respons written, I ne sauh no herd.

• 1842: Alfred Tennyson, The Two Voices

  Then did my response clearer fall:
  "No compound of this earthly ball
  Is like another, all in all."

• 1874: James Sully, Sensation and Intuition, p. 17.

  There seems a vast psychological interval between an emotional response to the action of some grateful stimulus and the highly complex intellectual and emotional development implied in a distinct appreciation of objective beauty.

Related terms

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• responsion
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• responsorial
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• responsure