# questionnaire

Pronunciation: say "kwes-chuh-NAIR" US /ˌkwɛs.t͡ʃəˈnɛɹ/, UK /ˌk(w)ɛstʃəˈnɛə/

## Noun

1. A printed or online form listing questions, used to gather information for a survey.
   - Simple: A sheet of questions used to collect answers from many people.
   - _The marketing team distributed a questionnaire to gauge customer satisfaction._
   - _Researchers analyzed responses from over a thousand completed questionnaires._

## Verb

2. To survey a group of people by means of questionnaires.
   - Simple: To collect information from people by giving them a form of questions.
   - _The researchers questionnaire participants at the start and end of the study._
   - _Census workers questionnaired every resident along the coastal route._

## Origin

Borrowed from French questionnaire, which comes from Late Latin quaestionarius, from quaestio (source of English question) plus -arius, ultimately from quaerō ("I question", also the source of English query).

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/questionnaire (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).