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Echo   /ˈɛkoʊ/   Listen
noun
Echo  n.  (pl. echoes)  
1.
A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. "The babbling echo mocks the hounds." "The woods shall answer, and the echo ring."
2.
Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. "Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them." "Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart."
3.
(a)
(Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them. "Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell."
(b)
(Gr. Myth.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice. "Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch."
4.
(Whist, Contract Bridge)
(a)
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 signaled for trumps.
(b)
A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; generally superseded by the swell.
Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for producing the soft effect of distant sound.
To applaud to the echo, to give loud and continuous applause. "I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again."


verb
Echo  v. t.  (past & past part. echoed; pres. part. echoing; 3d pers. sing. pres. echoes)  
1.
To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. "Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng." "The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever."
2.
To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. "They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them."


Echo  v. i.  To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise."





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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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