reply
Meaning
-
- 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.
Synonyms
give an answer
reply to
take in charge
circulating letter
written response
answer a call
give answer
call out in reply
give an answering call
make a reply
repay a favour
roar in imitation
speak in reply
make return
return something
countervail
elucidate
feed back
Frequency
Hyphenated as
re‧ply
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ɹɪˈplaɪ/
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.
Bookmark this
Improve your pronunciation
Start learning English with learnfeliz.
Practice speaking and memorizing "reply" and many other words and sentences in English.
Go to our English course page
Notes