responses
Sayri-SPONS-izUS/ɹɪˈspɑnsɪz/UK/ɹɪˈspɒnsɪz/
- 1Plural of response.
The survey gathered thousands of responses within the first week.
Her thoughtful responses during the interview impressed the panel.
Note
A regular plural: response simply adds -s, with no change to the stem. It carries every sense of the singular, from survey answers to the lines a choir or congregation sings back to the officiant and the replies made to objections in formal disputation. One phrase resists it: in response to stays singular, even when many answers are meant.
responses is a form of response
response, noun: An answer or reply, or something said or done as a reaction to something, as in 'in response to'. Full entry
- Forms
- responseresponses plural
- Spelling
- response → responses: add -s
- Sound
- The ending sounds like /ɪz/, an extra syllable.
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