questionnaire

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: ques=tion=naire

CIDE DICTIONARY

questionnaire, n. [F.].

•  same as Questionary.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
•  A list of questions, usually on a printed form, to be answered by an individual. The forms often have blank spaces in which the answers can be written. Sets of such forms are distributed to groups and the answers used for various purposes, such as to obtain statistical information for social science, political, or marketing research, or to obtain information about a patient for the use of medical practitioners.  [PJC]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

questionnaire, n.
1 a formulated series of questions, esp. for statistical study.
2 a document containing these.

Etymology

F f. questionner QUESTION + -aire -ARY(1)

THESAURUS

questionnaire

agenda, beadroll, cadastre, calendar, canvass, census, census report, checklist, checkroll, conduct a poll, consumer research, consumer-preference survey, docket, dramatis personae, head count, honor roll, inquiry, jury list, jury panel, lineup, make a survey, muster, muster roll, nose count, opinion poll, order of business, poll, program, property roll, public-opinion poll, questionary, returns, roll, roll call, roster, rota, sample, scroll, survey, tax roll