The meaning of Echo
Echo – definition
nounA sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.
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The walls threw back the echoes of his footstepsnounA close parallel to an idea, feeling, or event.
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His love for her found an echo in her own feelingsnounA person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another.
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Clarendon, whom they reckoned the faithful echo of their master's intentionsnounUsed in names of newspapers.
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The south wales echonounA code word representing the letter e, used in radio communication.
nounA 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.
verb(of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.
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Their footsteps echoed on the metal catwalksverb(of an object or event) be reminiscent of or have shared characteristics with.
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A blue suit that echoed the colour of her eyesverbSend a copy of (an input signal or character) back to its source or to a screen for display.
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For security reasons, the password will not be echoed to the screenverb(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 nounA nymph deprived of speech by hera in order to stop her chatter, and left able only to repeat what others had said.
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Word origin
Middle English: from Old French or Latin, from Greek ēkhō, related to ēkhē ‘a sound’.
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