Echo Meaning and Definition

Word: Echo

How to pronounce: ˈekəʊ

Noun

Definitions:

1. A sound or series of sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.

Example sentences: "The walls threw back the echoes of his footsteps"

2. A close parallel or repetition of an idea, feeling, style, or event.

Example sentences: "His love for her found an echo in her own feelings"

3. A person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another.

4. A code word representing the letter E, used in radio communication.

5. A play by a defender of a higher card in a suit followed by a lower one in a subsequent trick, used as a signal to request a further lead of that suit by their partner.

Intransitive verb

Definitions:

1. (of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.

Example sentences: "Their footsteps echoed on the metal catwalks"

2. (of an object, movement, or event) be reminiscent of or have shared characteristics with.

Example sentences: "A blue suit that echoed the color of her eyes"

3. Send a copy of (an input signal or character) back to its source or to a screen for display.

Example sentences: "For security reasons, the password will not be echoed to the screen"

4. (of a defender) play a higher card followed by a lower one in the same suit, as a signal to request one's partner to lead that suit.

Proper noun

Definitions:

1. A nymph deprived of speech by Hera in order to stop her chatter, and left able only to repeat what others had said.

Synonyms:

echo signal

echoing effect

resound

reverberate

resonate

repeat

reverberation

ring

resonance

faint sounds

sound

vestige

trace

relic

ghost

imitator

Derivations:

echoing

echoed

echoic

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Echo in Other Languages...

Spanish: Eco

German: Echo

French: Echo

Italian: Echo

Turkish: Yankı