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echo

[ ek-oh ]

noun

, plural ech·oes.
  1. a repetition of sound produced by the reflection of sound waves from a wall, mountain, or other obstructing surface.
  2. a sound heard again near its source after being reflected.
  3. any repetition or close imitation, as of the ideas or opinions of another.
  4. a person who reflects or imitates another.
  5. a sympathetic or identical response, as to sentiments expressed.
  6. a lingering trace or effect.
  7. (initial capital letter) Classical Mythology. a mountain nymph who pined away for love of the beautiful youth Narcissus until only her voice remained.
  8. Cards. the play of a high card and then a low card in the suit led by one's partner as a signal to continue leading the suit, as in bridge, or to lead a trump, as in whist.
  9. Electronics. the reflection of a radio wave, as in radar or the like.
  10. (initial capital letter) U.S. Aerospace. one of an early series of inflatable passive communications satellites.
  11. a word used in communications to represent the letter E.


verb (used without object)

, ech·oed, ech·o·ing.
  1. to emit an echo; resound with an echo:

    The hall echoed with cheers.

    Synonyms: reverberate, ring

  2. to be repeated by or as by an echo:

    Shouts echoed through the street.

    Synonyms: reverberate, ring

verb (used with object)

, ech·oed, ech·o·ing.
  1. to repeat by or as by an echo; emit an echo of:

    The hall echoes the faintest sounds.

  2. to repeat or imitate the words, sentiments, etc., of (a person).
  3. to repeat or imitate (words, sentiments, etc.).

Echo

1

/ ˈɛkəʊ /

noun

  1. Greek myth a nymph who, spurned by Narcissus, pined away until only her voice remained


Echo

2

/ ˈɛkəʊ /

noun

  1. either of two US passive communications satellites, the first of which was launched in 1960

echo

3

/ ˈɛkəʊ /

noun

    1. the reflection of sound or other radiation by a reflecting medium, esp a solid object
    2. the sound so reflected
  1. a repetition or imitation, esp an unoriginal reproduction of another's opinions
  2. something that evokes memories, esp of a particular style or era
  3. sometimes plural an effect that continues after the original cause has disappeared; repercussion

    the echoes of the French Revolution

  4. a person who copies another, esp one who obsequiously agrees with another's opinions
    1. the signal reflected by a radar target
    2. the trace produced by such a signal on a radar screen
  5. the repetition of certain sounds or syllables in a verse line
  6. the quiet repetition of a musical phrase
  7. Also calledecho organecho stop a manual or stop on an organ that controls a set of quiet pipes that give the illusion of sounding at a distance
  8. an electronic effect in recorded music that adds vibration or resonance

verb

  1. to resound or cause to resound with an echo

    the cave echoed their shouts

  2. intr (of sounds) to repeat or resound by echoes; reverberate
  3. tr (of persons) to repeat (words, opinions, etc), in imitation, agreement, or flattery
  4. tr (of things) to resemble or imitate (another style, earlier model, etc)
  5. tr (of a computer) to display (a character) on the screen of a visual display unit as a response to receiving that character from a keyboard entry

Echo

4

/ ˈɛkəʊ /

noun

  1. communications code word for the letter e

echo

/ ĕkō /

  1. A repeated sound that is caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface. The sound is heard more than once because of the time difference between the initial production of the sound waves and their return from the reflecting surface.
  2. A wave that carries a signal and is reflected. Echoes of radio signals (carried by electromagnetic waves) are used in radar to detect the location or velocity of distant objects.


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Derived Forms

  • ˈecholess, adjective
  • ˈechoing, adjective
  • ˈecho-ˌlike, adjective

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Other Words From

  • echo·er noun
  • echo·less adjective
  • outecho verb (used with object) outechoed outechoing
  • sub·echo noun plural subechoes
  • un·echoed adjective
  • un·echo·ing adjective

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Word History and Origins

Origin of echo1

First recorded in 1300–50; Middle English ecco, from Latin ēchō, from Greek, akin to ēchḗ “sound”

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Word History and Origins

Origin of echo1

C14: via Latin from Greek ēkhō; related to Greek ēkhē sound

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Example Sentences

The discovery of coronavirus in the bathroom of an unoccupied apartment in Guangzhou, China, suggests the airborne pathogen may have wafted upwards through drain pipes, an echo of a large SARS outbreak in Hong Kong 17 years ago.

From Fortune

Between 2011 and 2015, NASA’s MESSENGER spacecraft mapped the craters of perpetual darkness, and confirmed that they match up with the pattern of radar echoes.

This could exacerbate the problem Eli Pariser pointed out in The Filter Bubble years ago—that is, the tendency of the modern internet to shunt users into echo chambers where they are shielded from contrary views.

Around the world, seismometers don’t just pick up loud echoes of earthquakes rumbling through the subsurface.

Then, they listen for the echoes from the sound waves bouncing off objects in their surroundings.

I hope I can be forgiven for finding this echo more than merely coincidental.

There was only one phone left and when it would ring, the bell would echo, oddly, off the walls.

Later in an Echo of Moscow interview Kadyrov said that the operation would be over in 20 minutes.

In a grim echo of Michael Brown, the white New York City cop who placed Eric Garner in a banned chokehold wasn't charged.

Echo has documented all the crises of the post-Perestroika era, wars, conflicts, scandals, and protests.

The world may end, the heavens fall, yet loving voices would still find an echo in the ruins of the universe.

"Yes, Alessandro," she answered faintly, the gusts sweeping her voice like a distant echo past him.

The loping pursuit of that nameless, shapeless Something sounded like an echo in his head.

He was congratulating himself that he might still be in time, when the faint echo of firearms was borne to him on the breeze.

Even the conflict which had raged along the borders of Missouri and Kansas had only come as a faint echo among the Ozarks.

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