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Definition of Reply
Reply

To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.

To answer a defendant's plea.

Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.

To return for an answer.

That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.

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Reply Quotations

Hell is an outrage on humanity. When you tell me that your deity made you in his image, I reply that he must have been very ugly.
Victor Hugo

Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson

Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides

Of-course we did, but we didn't reply because we knew once this leaks the others will scatter, so in the few days we moved quickly before the press got hold of it. The press did get hold of it a few days later, we nabbed, we were able to get 15, the others got away.
Lee Kuan Yew

The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Christopher Lasch

Reply Translations

reply in Afrikaans is antwoord
reply in Danish is svar, svare
reply in Dutch is antwoorden, antwoorden op
reply in Finnish is vastata
reply in German is antwort, Antwort {f}, antworten
reply in Latin is respondeo respondi responsum, refero
reply in Norwegian is svare
reply in Portuguese is responder, resposta


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