Reply
A reply is a statement or acknowledgment made in response to an interrogative question, request or comment. Replies are communicated in a variety of ways, the most common being spoken or written, and act as a way of conveying relevant information and continuing a conversational exchange.
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Famous quotes containing the word reply:
“It was not seen that woman’s place was in the home until she began to go out of it; the statement was a reply to an unspoken challenge, it was attempted resistance to irresistible change.”
—Rose Wilder Lane (1886–1965)
“So, having no reply to give
To what the old man said,
I cried, ‘Come, tell me how you live!’
And thumped him on the head.”
—Lewis Carroll [Charles Lutwidge Dodgson] (1832–1898)
“Ask of her, the mighty mother:
Her reply puts this other
Question: What is Spring?—
Growth in everything.”
—Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889)