Meaning

2 senses

  1. (transitive)To reply with a repartee.

    schlagfertig antworten

  2. (transitive)To have a repartee (a conversation marked by witty retorts or replies).

    sich einen Schlagabtausch m liefern

Examples

1 sentences

  1. Mary is quick at repartee.

    ruМэри за словом в карман не лезет. — Ooneykcall

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Translations

2 languages
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By meaning 2
to reply with a swift witty retort:
to have a conversation marked by swift witty retorts:

Origin

From French repartie, a deverbal of repartir (“to retort”).

From French repartie, a deverbal of repartir (“to retort”).

Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0 · source

Forms

repartees, reparteeing, reparteed, reparteed
Base formrepartee · to repartee
3rd person singularrepartees
Present participlereparteeing
Past simplereparteed
Past participlereparteed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyrepartee
he, she, itrepartees

Past simpleLesson

all personsreparteed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave reparteed
he, she, ithas reparteed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill repartee

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
repairA2repairablerepairmanreparationrepaverepayB1repaymentrepeal

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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