Usually means: Provide an answer or reaction.
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We found 37 dictionaries that define the word respond:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. respond: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. respond: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. respond: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. respond: Collins English Dictionary
  5. respond: Vocabulary.com
  6. Respond, respond: Wordnik
  7. respond: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. respond: Wiktionary
  9. respond: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. respond: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. respond: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. respond: Dictionary.com
  13. respond: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. respond: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. RESPOND, Respond: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Respond: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. respond: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. respond: Rhymezone
  19. respond: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. respond: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. respond: Free Dictionary
  22. respond: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. respond: LookWAYup Translating Dictionary/Thesaurus
  24. respond: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. respond: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. The Organon: A Conceptually Indexed Dictionary (by Genus and Differentia) (No longer online)
  3. Virginia Tech Multimedia Music Dictionary (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of Management Jargon (No longer online)
  2. respond: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. respond: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. respond: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Respond: Castle Terms
  2. respond: Idioms

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Respond: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See responded as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To say something in return; to answer; to reply.
verb:  (intransitive) To act in return; to carry out an action or in return to a force or stimulus; to do something in response.
verb:  (transitive, intransitive) To correspond with; to suit.
verb:  (transitive) To satisfy; to answer.
verb:  (intransitive) To be liable for payment.
noun:  A response.
noun:  A versicle or short anthem chanted at intervals during the reading of a lection.
noun:  (architecture) A half-pillar, pilaster, or any corresponding device engaged in a wall to receive the impost of an arch.

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