reply
to make answer in words or writing; answer; respond: to reply to a question.
to respond by some action, performance, etc.: to reply to the enemy's fire.
to return a sound; echo; resound.
Law. to answer a defendant's plea.
to return as an answer (usually used in a negative combination or followed by a clause with that): Not a syllable did he reply. He replied that no one would go.
an answer or response in words or writing.
a response made by some action, performance, etc.
Origin of reply
1synonym study For reply
Other words for reply
Other words from reply
- re·pli·er, noun
- un·re·plied, adjective
- un·re·ply·ing, adjective
Words Nearby reply
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How to use reply in a sentence
It mainly took the form of replies to their posts, part of a bid to reorient political conversation.
Pro-Trump youth group enlists teens in secretive campaign likened to a ‘troll farm,’ prompting rebuke by Facebook and Twitter | Isaac Stanley-Becker | September 15, 2020 | Washington PostWhen the woman responded she gave warm and friendly replies but appeared to politely deflect, delay or decline each invitation.
Alaska’s Attorney General on Unpaid Leave After Sending Hundreds of “Uncomfortable” Texts to a Young Colleague | by Kyle Hopkins, Anchorage Daily News | August 25, 2020 | ProPublicaSince the beginning of April through the end of July, the publisher posted 47% more Stories and saw a 66% increase in replies and a 52% increase in impressions on those Stories.
How a new order of commerce is increasingly coming to the rescue for publishers with advertising challenges | Kayleigh Barber | August 17, 2020 | DigidayAlso, to boost the engagement rate of your post, make sure your reply to each and every comment.
What will make your brand stand out on LinkedIn in 2020? | Harikrishna Kundariya | August 12, 2020 | Search Engine WatchKraft also alleged during budget meetings, Carson “starts talking quieter and quieter after she asks questions so she cannot hear his reply.”
Accusations Flew, Then National School District Official Got Paid to Resign | Ashly McGlone | July 20, 2020 | Voice of San Diego
“Every critic encounters one book like that,” was his reply.
Johnson testified that he was the only one to reply, telling the cop that they were almost to where they were going.
90 Seconds of Fury in Ferguson Are the Key to Making Peace in America | Michael Daly | November 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTHe has received no reply from the government to the complaint he sent.
“I had not the most remote notion of what a wonderful man he was,” Darwin wrote of Aristotle in his reply to Ogle.
They received a letter of reply saying their help was very welcome, and to come down and pay them a visit.
‘Pride’: The Feel-Good Movie of the Year, and the Film Rupert Murdoch Doesn’t Want You to See | Marlow Stern | October 13, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTI waited three months more, in great impatience, then sent him back to the same post, to see if there might be a reply.
The Boarded-Up House | Augusta Huiell SeamanBefore Ripperda could unclasp his lips to reply, the stranger had opened the door, and passed through it like a gliding shadow.
The Pastor's Fire-side Vol. 3 of 4 | Jane PorterThe aged woman made no reply; her eyes still studied Ramona's face, and she still held her hand.
Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson"Better so," was the Senora's sole reply; and she fell again into still deeper, more perplexed thought about the hidden treasure.
Ramona | Helen Hunt Jackson"Marco's" reply conclusively proved his possession of a Christian spirit.
British Dictionary definitions for reply
/ (rɪˈplaɪ) /
to make answer (to) in words or writing or by an action; respond: he replied with an unexpected move
(tr; takes a clause as object) to say (something) in answer: he replied that he didn't want to come
law to answer a defendant's plea
to return (a sound); echo
an answer made in words or writing or through an action; response
the answer made by a plaintiff or petitioner to a defendant's case
Origin of reply
1Derived forms of reply
- replier, noun
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