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asker

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. inquirer, enquirer, questioner, querier, askernoun

    someone who asks a question

Wiktionary

  1. askernoun

    The person who asks a question

  2. Etymology: From aske, arske, from aþexe. More at ask.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Askernoun

    Etymology: from ask.

    Have you
    Ere now denied the asker? and, now again
    On him that did not ask, but mock, bestow
    Your su’d for tongues. William Shakespeare, Coriolanus.

    The greatness of the asker, and the smallness of the thing asked, had been sufficient to enforce his request. South.

    Every asker being satisfied, we may conclude, that all their conceptions of being in a place are the same. Kenelm Digby, of Bodies.

  2. Askernoun

    A water newt.

Wikipedia

  1. Asker

    Asker (Norwegian: Asker), properly called Askerbygda in Norwegian, is a district and former municipality in Akershus, Norway. From 2020 it is part of the larger administrative municipality Asker, Viken (also known as Greater Asker) in Viken county, together with the traditional Buskerud districts Røyken and Hurum; Asker proper constitutes the northern fourth and is part of the Greater Oslo Region. The administrative centre was the town of Asker, which remains so for the new larger municipality. Asker was established as a parish in the Middle Ages and as a municipality on 1 January 1838.

ChatGPT

  1. asker

    An asker is a person who is seeking information, knowledge or clarification by posing a question to someone else.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Askernoun

    one who asks; a petitioner; an inquirer

  2. Askernoun

    an ask; a water newt

  3. Etymology: [A corruption of AS. aexe lizard, newt.]

Wikidata

  1. Asker

    Asker is a municipality in Akershus county, Norway. It is part of the Viken traditional region. The administrative centre of the municipality is the village of Asker. The municipality is a suburb of Oslo, the national capital. Asker was established as a municipality on 1 January 1838.

Dictionary of Nautical Terms

  1. asker

    A name of the water-newt.

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ASKER

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Asker is ranked #57101 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Asker surname appeared 357 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Asker.

    83.1% or 297 total occurrences were White.
    6.1% or 22 total occurrences were Black.
    4.4% or 16 total occurrences were of two or more races.
    3.6% or 13 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    2.5% or 9 total occurrences were Asian.

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  1. sekar

  2. reask

  3. saker

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of asker in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of asker in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

Examples of asker in a Sentence

  1. Janis Meredith:

    I'm a question asker and I tend to ask a lot of questions and so that often got me in trouble because I would say things like, 'What happened?' or 'Why didn't the coach put you in?' ... and they're like, ' Mom, enough, the questions, stop,' we learned after a game to let our kids take the lead on the conversation.

  2. Sam Keen:

    To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

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