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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
respond/rɪˈspɒnd/
▶verb say or do something in reply or as a reaction. ▶noun
  • 1 Architecture a half-pillar or half-pier attached to a wall to support an arch.
  • 2 (in church use) a responsory; a response to a versicle.
– derivatives
responder noun.
– origin ME: from OFr., from respondre ‘to answer’, from L. respondere, from re- ‘again’ + spondere ‘to pledge’.



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