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Repute vs Reply - What's the difference?

repute | reply |

As nouns the difference between repute and reply

is that repute is reputation, especially a good reputation while reply is a written or spoken response; part of a conversation.

As verbs the difference between repute and reply

is that repute is to attribute or credit something to something; to impute while reply is (intransitive) to give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.

repute

English

Noun

(-)
  • Reputation, especially a good reputation.
  • *
  • *:At half-past nine on this Saturday evening, the parlour of the Salutation Inn, High Holborn, contained most of its customary visitors.In former days every tavern of repute kept such a room for its own select circle, a club, or society, of habitués, who met every evening, for a pipe and a cheerful glass.
  • Verb

    (reput)
  • To attribute or credit something to something; to impute.
  • To consider, think, esteem, reckon (a person or thing) to be, or as being, something
  • * Bible, Job xviii. 3
  • Wherefore are we counted as beasts, and reputed vile in your sight?
  • * Shakespeare
  • The king your father was reputed for / A prince most prudent.

    reply

    English

    Verb

    (en-verb)
  • (intransitive) To give a written or spoken response, especially to a question, request, accusation or criticism; to answer.
  • Please reply to my letter.
    "Sorry I'm late," replied the student.
    He replied that he was not sure.
  • To act or gesture in response.
  • Joanne replied to Pete's insult with a slap to his face.
  • * 1988 , Emmanuel Doe Ziorklui, Ghana: Nkrumah to Rawlings
  • It is a sound to be dreaded until you ascertain that it is being made by friendly forces; even then, your welcome to it must be tempered with some caution, because gunfire usually leads to replying gunfire
  • To repeat something back; to echo.
  • Synonyms

    * respond, answer, retort, answer back, react, rejoin, counter, return, revert, follow up, get back to

    Noun

    (replies)
  • A written or spoken response; part of a conversation.
  • Something given in reply.
  • Synonyms

    * answer, comeback, response, retort, return, account, rejoinder, riposte, reaction