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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
questioner
noun
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ A girl in a school frock rapped the questioner from behind for this gross mistake.
▪ A new police questioner was drafted in.
▪ His question-answering demonstrated an analytical ability, and respect for the questioner and for his audience.
▪ In puncturing the mask of McCarthy's awesome intellect, Hilts acts on our behalf as both questioner and narrator.
▪ In Sidaway, Lord Bridge said there was a duty to answer as truthfully and fully as the questioner requires.
▪ The questioner should move to an empty seat as far away as possible.
▪ When the Speaker called for questioners, a forest of bodies shot up wanting to speak.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Questioner

Questioner \Ques"tion*er\, n. One who asks questions; an inquirer. ``Little time for idle questioners.''
--Tennyson.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
questioner

1550s, agent noun from question (v.).

Wiktionary
questioner

n. A person who asks questions, or who conducts an official enquiry

WordNet
questioner

n. someone who asks a question [syn: inquirer, enquirer, querier, asker]

Usage examples of "questioner".

My questioner made no reply to this, and everybody remained silent, as if nothing had been said.

At this Questioner gestured, and Firekeeper noticed how the golden yellow light that illuminated the room came from translucent blocks set in the wall.

Blind Seer found Questioner on the observation platform at the top of one of the towers.

All this time Questioner had not even turned his head to look at her, but had kept his gaze fixedly toward the east.

Rahniseeta passed through the door and helped Questioner draw the bolt and set the bar.

Where Sky rested on the catwalk beneath the window, Questioner was caught within an interweave of splintered wood, rubble, and less definable detritus.

Rahniseeta said you said something about Questioner being your father?

Firekeeper, who had been moving to get a better look at Questioner and reassure herself that Questioner was indeed breathing, stared at her.

A few talked softly to Questioner, telling him how they valued his courage, his willingness to look beyond their own borders, and even to doubt when that doubting might lead to deeper understanding.

Powerful Tenderness, and the massive, blocky bear body bent and lifted the other as if with the release of spirit, Questioner had suddenly become light.

Firekeeper knew herself to still be a captive, but thanks to Questioner and the others, she knew at last who held her so.

She had no questioners among her people, and accorddng to Aviendha, an unskilled questioner was likely to kill the one being put unsuccessfully to the question.

Caderousse, whose countenance flushed darkly as he caught the penetrating gaze of the abbe fixed on him, while the clear, calm eye of the questioner seemed to dilate with feverish scrutiny.

He motioned, and two of the hulking Questioners took a step toward Galad, one with a cruel grin, the other blank-faced, a workman about his work.

Bornhald, nodding toward the Questioners clustered on their horses near the gate.