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
