reply

Meaning

Verb

1. (intransitive, transitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
2. (intransitive) To act or gesture in response.
3. (intransitive) To repeat something back; to echo.

Noun

1. A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
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.

Synonyms

answer

respond

response

retort

return

rejoinder

reaction

react

rejoin

counter

repay

replica

cue

answer back

solution

solve

crackdown

reply to

give an answer

report

rebuttal

echo

plead

counterattack

key

🔑

give back

replication

reciprocate

revenge

equal

elucidation

comeback

elucidate

circular

defense

defence

check

payment

💸

deal

bear

🐻

acknowledgement

occur

notification

match

countervail

pay back

backwash

plea

know

interlocution

Translations

réponse

Antwort

répondre

risposta

antworten

responder

rispondere

respuesta

antwoord

resposta

contestar

contestación

antwoorden

Erwiderung

resposta

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ɹɪˈplaɪ/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: replyen

In summary

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.