different between repartee vs departee

English

Alternative forms

• repartée

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /???p???te?/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???p???ti?/

Noun

repartee (countable and uncountable, plural repartees)

1. A swift, witty reply, especially one that is amusing.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:joke

   • 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

     Yet habit—strange thing! what cannot habit accomplish?—Gayer sallies, more merry mirth, better jokes, and brighter repartees, you never heard over your mahogany […]

   • 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, chapter 41

     A slight smile broke on his lips. ¶ "You are always prepared to sacrifice your principles for a repartee," he answered.

2. A conversation marked by a series of witty retorts.
3. Skill in replying swiftly and wittily.

Translations

Verb

repartee (third-person singular simple present repartees, present participle reparteeing, simple past and past participle reparteed)

1. To reply with a repartee
2. To have a repartee (conversation marked by repartees)

Translations

Further reading

• “repartee”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–present.

Anagrams

• Pear Tree, pear tree, peartree, repeater, rerepeat

English

Etymology

From French [Term?]

Noun

departee (plural departees)

1. One who has departed from a place or group.

Anagrams

• repeated