reply
Meanings
Plural: replies
Noun
- a statement (either spoken or written) that is made to reply to a question or request or criticism or accusation
- the speech act of continuing a conversational exchange
- "he growled his reply"
- A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
- Something given in reply.
- A counterattack.
- The answer of a figure.
- A document written by a party specifically replying to a responsive declaration and in some cases an answer.
Verb
- react verbally
- To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
- To act or gesture in response.
- To repeat something back; to echo.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English replyen, replien, borrowed from Old French replier (“to reply”), from the Latin replicō, replicāre (“I fold back”) (in Late or Medieval Latin "to reply, repeat"), from re + plicō (“I fold”); the noun derives from the verb by nominalisation. Doublet of replicate and replica.
Synonyms
account, answer, answer back, comeback, counter, follow up, get back to, react, reaction, rebuttal, rejoin, rejoinder, respond, response, retort, return, revert, riposte
Scrabble Score: 10
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