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
Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
Euripides
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
The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.
Truman Capote
Theirs is not to make reply: Theirs is not to reason why: Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
A wise man is superior to any insults which can be put upon him, and the best reply to unseemly behavior is patience and moderation.
Moliere
I'll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.
George H. W. Bush
To the dumb question, why me? The cosmos barely bothers to return the reply: 'Why not.'
Christopher Hitchens
The usual complaint is, 'I have no other way of earning a living.' The harsh reply can be, 'Do you have to live?'
Tertullian
There are those, I know, who will reply that the liberation of humanity, the freedom of man and mind, is nothing but a dream. They are right. It is. It is the American Dream.
Archibald MacLeish
When business leaders ask me what they can do for Indiana, I always reply: 'Make money. Go make money. That's the first act of corporate citizenship. If you do that, you'll have to hire someone else, and you'll have enough profit to help one of those non-profits we're so proud of.'
Mitch Daniels
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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