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Definition: Repartee |
ReparteeNoun1. Adroitness and cleverness in reply. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "repartee" was first used: sometime around 1645. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Satire | REPARTEE, n. Prudent insult in retort. Practiced by gentlemen with a constitutional aversion to violence, but a strong disposition to offend. In a war of words, the tactics of the North American Indian. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
19th Century Satire | The sassy habit of talking back. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Answer | Noun: answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee; rescript, rescription; antiphon, antiphony; acknowledgment; password; echo; counter statement. |
Wit | Banter, badinage, retort, repartee, smartness, ready wit, quid-pro-quo; ridicule. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Repartee |
| English words defined with "repartee": backchat, banter, Bonmot ♦ give-and-take ♦ Metaphrase ♦ raillery, Reparteed, Reparteeing, Ripost ♦ Tubulated retort ♦ Wit-snapper. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "repartee": Baccoch ♦ repartee. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "repartee": Wit-snapper. (references) |
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Screenplays | How I hate it when she pummels us with clever repartee. (Filthy Rich; writing credit: Barry E. Blitzer; Linda Bloodworth-Thomason) | |
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Benjamin Disraeli | A majority is always better than the best repartee. |
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Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | In repartee, this youngster is as famous as Talleyrand. |
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| "Repartee" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Repartee" is used about 40 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 100% | 40 | 54,274 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expression using "repartee": quick at repartee. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
repartee | 26 |
repartee rose | 4 |
mail repartee voice | 4 |
gallery repartee | 2 |
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| Language | Translations for "repartee"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | përgjigje e hollë, fjalë me vend. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | حضور البديهة (promptitude), جواب بارع, براعة الاجابة. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | размяна на остроумни забележки, остроумен отговор (retort), остроумие (ingeniousness, ingenuity, salt, sparkle, wit, witticism, wittiness), находчивост (acumen, ingeniousness, ingenuity, know how, mercuriality, resource, resourcefulness, smartness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | pádná odpovìï. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | حاضرجوابی (Improvisation), جواب شوخی امیز. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | repliikki (lines, rag, rejoinder). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | repartie (rejoinder, retort), réplique (reciprocality, rejoinder, replica, reply, retort). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Schlagfertigkeit (quick-wittedness, rapier wit, ready wit, repercussiveness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ετοιμολογία (quick reply). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | תשוב" ש ו ". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | visszavágás (click of the tongue, come-back, recrimination, retort, riposte, sally of wit). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | il rimbeccare. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | jesh-'ocklaght, beeal-aarlooid. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | eparteeray resposta pronta (snipsnap), réplica (aftershock, answer, comeuppance, flash, have objection to, rebuttal, rejoinder, replica, replica master, replication, reply, response, retort, snipsnap). (various references) ripostã (rejoinder, retort, retortion, riposte), replicã (catchword, counterpart, cue, imitation, rejoinder, remark, replication, reply, respond, response, retort, retortion, tag), rãspuns (acknowledgement, acknowledgment, answer, reaction, replication, reply, respond, respondence, response, retort, script, solution). (various references) остроумие (cuteness, esprit, smartness, wit, wittiness). (various references) teabaid (a taunt, taunt). (various references) spremnost da se brzo odgovori, duhovit odgovor, brz (cursory, expeditious, fast, fleet, high speed, nippy, prompt, quick, rapid, spanking, speedy, swift, tantivy, tripping). (various references) réplicas chistosas, réplicas agudas. (various references) kvick replik. (various references) การสนทนาที่"ำเนินไปอย่างฉลา"หลักแหลม, ความชำนาญในการตอบอย่างฉลา"หลักแหลม. (various references) yerinde cevap (comeback, rejoinder), hazırcevaplık (quick wit, smartness, wittiness), hazırcevap (comeback, nimble-witted, quick at repartee, quick on the trigger, quick-witted, quip, quirk, readywitted, riposte, witty). (various references) дотепність (ingenuity, nimbleness, smartness, wit), дотеп (esprit, gag, joke, mot, nifty, quirk, salt, wheeze, wisecrack, witticism, yak). (various references) sự ứng đối, sự đối đáp lời ứng đối. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| French | 1500-Modern | repartie. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "repartee": repartees. (additional references) | |
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"Repartee" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prepartum, rapartee, rappartee, Reberty, repare, repargee, repart, reparte, reparter, repartie, repartis, reparto, reporte, reportee, reporten, reporty. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: repeater, rerepeat. | |
| Words within the letters "a-e-e-e-p-r-r-t" | |
-1 letter: pearter, taperer. | |
-2 letters: perter, prater, reaper, repeat, retape, retear, tearer, terrae. | |
-3 letters: apter, arete, eater, etape, parer, pater, peart, perea, peter, prate, raper, rater, taper, tarre, tepee, terra. | |
-4 letters: aper, epee, pare, parr, part, pate, pear, peat, peer, pert, prat, pree, rape, rapt, rare, rate, reap, rear, rete, tape, tare, tarp, tear, tepa, trap. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-e-e-e-p-r-r-t" | |
+1 letter: preheater, reoperate, repartees, repeaters, rerepeats. | |
+2 letters: perpetrate, preheaters, pretheater, pretreated, recarpeted, recuperate, reoperated, reoperates, rerepeated. | |
+3 letters: carpentered, overoperate, peregrinate, perpetrated, perpetrates, perseverate, preliterate, privateered, recuperated, recuperates, repatterned, replastered, rerepeating, superheater, telegrapher, temperature. | |
+4 letters: interpleader, overoperated, overoperates, parameterize, peradventure, peregrinated, peregrinates, perseverated, perseverates, predeparture, preferential, preliterates, preoperative, preponderate, presbyterate, preservative, pretreatment, recuperative, superheaters, telegraphers, temperatures. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)52 65 70 61 72 74 65 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-. . .--. .- .-. - . . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010010 01100101 01110000 01100001 01110010 01110100 01100101 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)R e p a r t e e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0052 0065 0070 0061 0072 0074 0065 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5271826784867171 |
| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Modern 4. Usage: Commercial | 5. Quotations: Familiar 6. Quotations: Fiction 7. Usage Frequency 8. Expressions | 9. Expressions: Internet 10. Translations: Modern 11. Translations: Ancient 12. Derivations | 13. Anagrams 14. Orthography 15. Bibliography |
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