echo

Plural: echoes, echos

Noun

• A sound repeated by reflection of sound waves.
• the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
  • "she could hear echoes of her own footsteps"
• (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained
• a reply that repeats what has just been said
• a reflected television or radio or radar beam
• 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"
• an imitation or repetition
  • "the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life"
• A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
• An utterance repeating what has just been said.
• A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
• Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
• Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
• An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
• The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
• An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
• alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
• A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or, as played by some, exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signalled for trumps.
• A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
• An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
• Clipping of echocardiography.
• Clipping of echocardiogram.

Verb

Verb Forms: echoed, echoing, echoes

• To repeat a sound or idea through reflection.
• to say again or imitate
  • "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"
• ring or echo with sound
• call to mind
  • "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"
• Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
• Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
• To reflect back (a sound).
• To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
• To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
• To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

Examples

• Her high-scoring play created an ECHO effect, inspiring her next big move.
• Sid echoed his father’s point of view.
• The strategy of playing short words to ECHO previously scored letters is common in Scrabble.

Synonyms

recall, repeat, replication, resound, reverberate, reverberation, ring, sound reflection

Anagrams of echo