What is the definition of a question?

Answer 1

A sentence that when asked out aloud ends with a slightly higher intonation of the voice, or is ended with a question mark when read silently.

Answer 2

The definition of a question is something you want to know, but you don't know what it means. And you want to find out!!! But sometimes people never tell you the answer and so that "question" still lingers in your mind. This is a stupid question(no offense...)

Answer 3

1. A question is an illocutionary act that has a directive illocutionary point of attempting to get the addressee to supply information.
2. A question is a sentence type that has a form (labeled interrogative) typically used to express an illocutionary act with the directive illocutionary point mentioned above. It may be actually so used (as a direct illocution), or used rhetorically.

all about 'question'...http://www.sil.org/linguistics/GlossaryOfLinguisticTerms/WhatIsAQuestion.htm

Answer 4

A question is something asked by one person, most of the time in need of an answer. An answer is the response to that question

Answer 5

ques·tion (kwĕs'chən)
n.

An expression of inquiry that invites or calls for a reply.
An interrogative sentence, phrase, or gesture.
A subject or point open to controversy; an issue.
A difficult matter; a problem: a question of ethics.
A point or subject under discussion or consideration.

A proposition brought up for consideration by an assembly.
The act of bringing a proposal to vote.
Uncertainty; doubt: There is no question about the validity of the enterprise.

v., -tioned, -tion·ing, -tions.

v.tr.
To put a question to. See synonyms at ask.
To examine (a witness, for example) by questioning; interrogate.
To express doubt about; dispute.
To analyze; examine.
v.intr.
To ask questions.

idioms:
in question

Under consideration or discussion.
out of the question
Not worth considering; impossible: Starting over is out of the question.

[Middle English, from Old French, legal inquiry, from Latin quaestiō, quaestiōn-, from *quaestus, obsolete past participle of quaerere, to ask, seek.]

questioner ques'tion·er n.
questioningly ques'tion·ing·ly adv.

question

noun

A request for data: inquiry, interrogation, query. Law interrogatory. See ask/answer, investigate.
A situation that presents difficulty, uncertainty, or perplexity: hornets' nest, issue, problem. Informal can of worms. See easy/hard.
A lack of conviction or certainty: doubt, doubtfulness, dubiety, dubiousness, incertitude, mistrust, skepticism, suspicion, uncertainty, wonder. See certain/uncertain.
verb

To put a question to (someone): ask, examine, inquire, query, quiz. See ask/answer.
To be uncertain, disbelieving, or skeptical about: distrust, doubt, misdoubt, mistrust, wonder. Idioms: have one's doubts. See certain/uncertain.

A question is any of several kinds of linguistic expressions normally used by a questioner to request the presentation of information back to the questioner, in the form of an answer, by the audience. Alternatively, one may say that the question is the request itself, and the interrogative sentence merely expresses it, but we will not use this sense. Questions thus resemble other requesting expressions as well as commands in normally being used to elicit a response. Indeed some expressions, such as "Would you pass the butter?", have the grammatical form of questions but function as requests for action, not for answers; these will be treated under request rather than here.

Questions have a number of secondary uses: They may be used ("Socratically") to guide the questioner along an avenue of research. A rhetorical question is asked in order to make a point, and does not expect an answer (often the answer is implied or obvious). Presuppositional questions, such as "Have you stopped beating your wife?" may be used as a joke or to embarrass the audience, because any answer a person could give would imply more information than he was willing to affirm. Questions can also be titles of works of art and literature (e.g. Leo Tolstoy's short story How Much Land Does a Man Need? and the movie What About Bob?).

YEA! What About Bob?

Answer 6

Without searching on Dictionary.com, I would think the simplest definition is: A statement requiring an answer.

Answer 7

A question is a statement that requires thought. It does not, however, need to end with a question mark or does it need any answer.

Answer 8

A question, provided by an good answer, is request for help from one person to another!

Answer 9

definition of a question is a sentence starting with "who, what, where, when, how", end with a question mark "?"

Answer 10

An interrogative statement