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Echo   /ˈɛkoʊ/   Listen
Echo

noun
(pl. echoes)
1.
The repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves.  Synonyms: replication, reverberation, sound reflection.
2.
(Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained.
3.
A reply that repeats what has just been said.
4.
A reflected television or radio or radar beam.
5.
A close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc..  "Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man"
6.
An imitation or repetition.
verb
(past & past part. echoed; pres. part. echoing; 3d pers. sing. pres. echoes)
1.
To say again or imitate.  Synonym: repeat.
2.
Ring or echo with sound.  Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring.
3.
Call to mind.  Synonym: recall.



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"Echo" Quotes from Famous Books



... wide, and a covey of aeroplanes bombing the local cabbageries. This again is all right in its way, but in the meantime the mutual noise further up the line has become so loud that Someone very far back and high up catches the echo of it, and a bare hour later we receive the order to stand-to at once, ready to move ...
— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 150, March 15, 1916 • Various
... was determined to find out who did it, whereupon she said she would do her best to help me; but she remembered the sweep lighting the fire with a bit of the Echo. I requested the sweep to be sent to me to-morrow. I wish Carrie had not given Lupin a latch-key; we never seem to see anything of him. I sat up till past one for him, ...
— The Diary of a Nobody • George Grossmith and Weedon Grossmith
... ten,' she said, addressing the noise. Ten strokes, distinctly given! 'How old is my daughter Margaret?' Twelve strokes. 'And Kate?' Nine. 'What can all this mean?' was Mrs. Fox's thought. Who was answering her? Was it only some mysterious echo of her own thought? But the next question which she put seemed to refute the idea. 'How many children have I?' she asked aloud. Seven strokes. 'Ah!' she thought, 'it can blunder sometimes.' And then aloud, 'Try again.' Still the number of raps was seven. Of a sudden a thought crossed Mrs. ...
— Modern Spiritualism • Uriah Smith
... Cheapside, where the Mermaid Tavern stood, and where Beaumont, Fletcher, Ben Jonson and other roysterers often lingered and made the midnight echo with their mirth. In all probability, John Milton, Senior, father of John Milton, Junior, knew Shakespeare well. But the Miltons owned their home; were rich, influential, eminently respectable; attended Saint Giles' Church, and really didn't care to cultivate ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 5 (of 14) • Elbert Hubbard
... Echo? He had called to her once in the valley, and she had answered him word for word. Could she mock the eye, as she mocked the voice? Could she make a mimic world just like the real world? Could the shadows ...
— A House of Pomegranates • Oscar Wilde


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