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reply

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Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
11
Letters
5
Pronunciation
/ɹɪˈplaɪ/

Definition of reply

8 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

verb

  1. (intransitive, transitive)To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
    “(intransitive) Please reply to my letter.”
    “(transitive) "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.”
    “(transitive) He replied that he was not sure.”
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verb

  1. (intransitive, transitive)To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
    “(intransitive) Please reply to my letter.”
    “(transitive) "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.”
    “(transitive) He replied that he was not sure.”
  2. (intransitive)To act or gesture in response.
    “Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.”
    “It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire[…]”
    “[…] bulged the onion bag for the Blades, and Downes and Prendergast replied for the Owls.”
  3. (intransitive)To repeat something back; to echo.

noun

  1. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
    “For example, it is said that someone at a party once asked the famous philosopher Ly Tin Weedle ‘Why are you here?’ And the reply took three years.”
  2. Something given in reply.
  3. A counterattack.
  4. The answer of a figure.
  5. (US)A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“to fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“to fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica.

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