Echo

Quick meaning: Echo is a noun meaning A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

Meaning

A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

More Meanings

1. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
2. (poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
3. (figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
4. (figurative) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
5. (figurative) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
6. (computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
7. (computing) An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.

Example Sentences

The babbling echo mocks the hounds.

Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.

Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.

To you I mourn; nor to the Deaf I ſing, / The Woods ſhall anſwer, and their Echo ring.

Word Forms

• echoes
• echos
• echoe
• echoing
• echoed

Synonyms for echo

Depending on context, synonyms include ring, resound, reverberate, recall, reverberation, repeat.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include reverberate, resound, reverberation, repeat, recall, ring.

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