Definitions for reply

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reply re·ply

Spelling: [ri-plahy]

IPA: /rɪˈplaɪ/

Reply is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 58 anagrams from letters in reply (elpry).

Definitions for reply

noun

1. an answer or response in words or writing.
2. a response made by some action, performance, etc.

verb (used with object)

1. to return as an answer (usually used in a negative combination or followed by a clause with that):

verb (used without object)

1. to make answer in words or writing; answer; respond:
2. to respond by some action, performance, etc.:
3. to return a sound; echo; resound.
4. Law. to answer a defendant's plea.

Origin of reply

1350-1400; Middle English replien (v.) Middle French replier to fold back, reply Latin replicāre to unroll, fold back; see replicate

Examples for reply

“I had not the most remote notion of what a wonderful man he was,” Darwin wrote of Aristotle in his reply to Ogle.

"You'll find I'm right, sir," was the reply of the traveller who spoke first.

“Every critic encounters one book like that,” was his reply.

"Not till I heard the minister's kind voice," was the reply.

They received a letter of reply saying their help was very welcome, and to come down and pay them a visit.

"Certainly, Robert," was the reply, but the lawyer's manner showed some surprise.

If it were not so, his hand would have written in reply to thy kind epistle.

Johnson testified that he was the only one to reply, telling the cop that they were almost to where they were going.

He has received no reply from the government to the complaint he sent.

Silence was painful to me, and reply only accumulated difficulty and vexation.