Echo
['ekəʊ] or ['ɛko]
Definition
(noun.) an imitation or repetition; 'the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life'.
(noun.) a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.; 'his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau'; 'Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man'.
(noun.) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves; 'she could hear echoes of her own footsteps'.
(noun.) a reflected television or radio or radar beam.
(noun.) a reply that repeats what has just been said.
(noun.) (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained.
(verb.) call to mind; 'His words echoed John F. Kennedy'.
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Definition
(n.) A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
(n.) Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
(n.) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
(n.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
(v. t.) To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
(v. t.) To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
(v. i.) To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Reverberation, reflected sound.
v. n. Resound, reverberate, be sounded back.
v. a. [1]. Reverberate, reëcho.[2]. Repeat, sound again.
Typist: Norton
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Reverberation, resonance, repetition, imitation, answer
ANT:Sound, voice, original, question, proposition, statement, opinion
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Definition
n. the repetition of sound caused by a sound-wave coming against some opposing surface and being reflected: a device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line: imitation: an imitator:—pl. Echoes (ek′ōz).—v.i. to reflect sound: to be sounded back: to resound.—v.t. to send back the sound of: to repeat a thing said: to imitate: to flatter slavishly:—pr.p. ech′ōing; pa.p. ech′ōed.—ns. Ech′oism the formation of imitative words; Ech′oist one who repeats like an echo.—adj. Ech′oless giving no echo unresponsive.—ns. Echom′eter an instrument for measuring the length of sounds; Echom′etry the art of measuring such.—Cheer to the echo to applaud most heartily so that the room resounds.
Typist: Lycurgus
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of an echo, portends that distressful times are upon you. Your sickness may lose you your employment, and friends will desert you in time of need.
Typist: Waldo
Unserious Contents or Definition
The only thing that can cheat a woman out of the last word.
Checker: McDonald
Examples
- An echo is caused by the reflection of sound waves at some moderately even surface, such as the wall of a building. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The doctor set down sixty-four, and thenceforth the echo moved too fast for him, also. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- His laugh had not quite left him either, but it was like the echo of a joyful sound, and that is always sorrowful. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- My only answer was my own voice reverberating in a rolling echo from the cliffs around me. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes.
- How many a thing had she said, and got no echo from him. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- The myriad noises of the jungle seemed far distant and hushed to a mere echo of blurred sounds, rising and falling like the surf upon a remote shore. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- It was a loud report and echoed and rattled heavily. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Archer burst into a laugh, and May echoed it, crimson to the eyes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Das war ausgezeichnet, das war famos--' 'Wirklich famos,' echoed his exhausted daughters, faintly. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- His steps echoed through the low building with a hollow sound, and he almost feared to be alone, it was so still and quiet. Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- The paternal laugh was echoed by Joseph, who thought the joke capital. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- A great deal, echoed Caliphronas, with an evil smile. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- Now, come and take your place in the circle, and let us sit quiet, and hear the echoes about which you have your theory. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He was overjoyed at seeing me, and to know the meaning of the fight, faint echoes of which had reached his prison cell. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- At this point a voice echoes down the centuries to us. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Morning was breaking over the cheerful house-tops of Chancery Lane as the rattling cab woke up the echoes there. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- She had not felt so stunned--so impressed as she did now, when echoes of Mr. Thornton's voice yet lingered about the room. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Let greater echoes resound as they would, the young mother at the cradle side could always hear those coming. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- He sat down beside her and waited; but suddenly he heard a step echoing far off down the empty rooms, and felt the pressure of the minutes. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I hear echoing footsteps in the passages below, and the iron thumping of bolts and bars at the house door. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The man's footsteps were so noisy on the echoing stones that he was unwilling to add the sound of his own. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- I hadn't hardly got back here when I heard a shot go echoing and rattling right away into the inn. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I did at one time mean, said Miss Flite, echoing the sigh, to nominate, constitute, and appoint poor Gridley. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The best light of the day was gone when I passed along the quiet echoing courts behind the High Street. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
Editor: Pratt