questionnaire

Borrowed from French questionnaire, from Late Latin quaestionarius, from quaestio (English question) + -arius, from quaerō (“I question”) (English query).

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌk(w)ɛstʃəˈnɛə/, /ˌk(w)ɛstjəˈnɛə/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˌkwɛs.t͡ʃəˈnɛɹ/

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questionnaire (plural questionnaires)

1. A form containing a list of questions; a means of gathering information for a survey.

   carry out a questionnaire

   fill out a questionnaire

   • 1946 January and February, “Post-War Passenger Coaches”, in Railway Magazine, page 2:

     In considering their post-war designs some of the British and American railways have adopted the course of taking a cross section of the requirements of the travelling public by distributing questionnaires dealing with details of seating, lighting, catering, and other features making for comfortable journeys.

• question

questionnaire (third-person singular simple present questionnaires, present participle questionnairing, simple past and past participle questionnaired)

1. (transitive) To survey using questionnaires.

Borrowed from Late Latin quaestiōnārius, from quaestiōnō, from Latin quaestiō.

• IPA^(key): /kɛs.tjɔ.nɛʁ/

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questionnaire m (plural questionnaires)

1. questionnaire

• question

• “questionnaire”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• questionnerai