If you ask a question, you'd be the asker and the other party would be the ____.
I thought of "askee", but this is not a word.
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3Askee is absolutely a word, its just one you might not want to use in some contexts. The dictionary is not the ultimate arbiter of wordhood. – phoog Mar 19 '16 at 04:43
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Not quite the same, but have a look at how can you say 'the person I'm talking with' with one word?. – Lawrence Mar 19 '16 at 06:44
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2Also consider addressee for the person to whom the question was addressed. It's possibly more closely related to envelope addresses, but it sounds like it fits. – Lawrence Mar 19 '16 at 06:47
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http://english.stackexchange.com/questions/73616/questionee-inquiree-interrogatee – Elian Mar 19 '16 at 08:53
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1@Elian The post you indicated in comments matches this question better than the one placed by the closure notice - this question allows the possibility that the person addressed doesn't answer. – Lawrence Mar 19 '16 at 09:14
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@Elian You are saying that 'person asked' is identical to 'person answering'. I suggest you re-open this for incorrectly closing, or adjust the cited duplicate. – Edwin Ashworth Aug 01 '17 at 18:24
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In this case, I would guess that the person would be a "listener" if he wasn't answering the question; then he would be the "answerer". So it depends on context.
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I think the appropriate choice is audience as in the following examples:
Who is audience of the question? (Depends on the question. For the question, 'What is a 7th grade student's favorite color?', the audience is 7th grade students.)
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feel that the intended audience of The Question Book is young, professional and quite possibly male. Almost twenty pages of the book's 160 ...
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I think addressee is the word. But it certainly depends on the situation. An answerer, a respondent would do as well.
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