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reply
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Word definitions for reply in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Reply \Re*ply"\, n.; pl. Replies (-pl?z"). [See Reply , v. i., and cf. Replica .] That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response. Syn: Answer; rejoinder; response. Usage: Reply , Rejoinder ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "to make an answer," from Old French replier "to reply, turn back," from Late Latin replicare "to reply, repeat," in classical Latin "fold back, fold over, bend back," from re- "back, again" (see re- ) + plicare "to fold" (see ply (v.1)). Latin ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A written or spoken response; part of a conversation. 2 Something given in reply. vb. 1 (context transitive intransitive English) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer. 2 (context ...
Usage examples of reply.
Rynst, and he but replies that eastern Cyador will fall, should the Accursed Forest slip its wards.
She wanted to protect her against herself and questioned the advisability of printing some of her replies.
You replied, advising me, and prescribing a course of treatment, which you sent to me.
He made no intimation at the time of the proposition, nor did he in his reply allude at all to that suggestion of mine.
On the 6th of September he said he had before stated in the hand-bill that he held an assignment dated May 20th, 1828, which in reply I pronounced to be false, and referred to the hand-bill for the truth of what I said.
I yelled to Loren to get the antivenin out of the drawer in back, lost his reply as the dizziness and confusion hit me.
I hasted to take her my reply in my own person, and promised not to neglect her, assuring her that at all hazards she might rely on me.
Harruel was so astounded by what Sachkor had said and by the way he had said it that the words of his reply clotted in his throat.
Finally, his tone holding a mixture of embarrassment and awkwardness, Barnet replied.
Countess and Mademoiselle Bearn, having looked, for a moment, with surprise, on her dejected countenance, began, as usual, to talk of trifles, while the eyes of Lady Blanche asked much of her friend, who could only reply by a mournful smile.
He brought his attention back to Benj, who had not paused for a reply.
Lakshmi replied, calling up an image of a heavyset, bespectacled man with long grey hair.
The reply of the Greek betrays a sentiment, which prudence, and even gratitude, should have taught him to suppress.
I turned a suspicious eye upon my friend, the Bonze, to whose indiscretions, I thought, I was indebted for the quick reply.
Cranston grinned in reply and followed the bent figure of Bouton down the hall.