echo

Meaning of echo

noun
  1. a sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.
    the walls threw back the echoes of his footsteps
  2. a close parallel to an idea, feeling, or event.
    his love for her found an echo in her own feelings
  3. a person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another.
    Clarendon, whom they reckoned the faithful echo of their master's intentions
  4. used in names of newspapers.
    the South Wales Echo
  5. a code word representing the letter E, used in radio communication.
  6. 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.
verb
  1. (of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.
    their footsteps echoed on the metal catwalks
  2. (of an object or event) be reminiscent of or have shared characteristics with.
    a blue suit that echoed the colour of her eyes
  3. send a copy of (an input signal or character) back to its source or to a screen for display.
    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.

Middle English: from Old French or Latin, from Greek ēkhō, related to ēkhē ‘a sound’.

Information about echo

  • The plural form of echo is: echos.
  • Languages ​​in which echo is used:

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Hyphenation of echo

echo

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 4 chars.
  • echo is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

echo synonyms

Meaning reverberation:

reverberation, replication

Meaning Echo:

Echo

Meaning repeat:

repeat

Meaning resound:

resound, ring, reverberate

Meaning recall:

recall

Meaning (of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo:

reverberating

Meaning an image seen in a mirror or shiny surface:

reflection

Meaning unmistakable; emphatic:

resounding

Meaning an act or sound of ringing:

ringing

Meaning the recurrence of an action or event:

repetition

Meaning the action of repeating something, typically for emphasis or clarity:

reiteration

Meaning a thing that is said, written, or done as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation:

answer

Meaning one of two or more identical things:

duplicate

Meaning a thing made to be similar or identical to another:

copy

Meaning an exact copy or model of something, especially one on a smaller scale:

replica

Meaning an exact copy, especially of written or printed material:

facsimile

Meaning the action or process of copying something:

reproduction

Meaning the action of using someone or something as a model:

imitation

Meaning one of two children or animals born at the same birth:

twin

Meaning a thing which is twice as large as usual or is made up of two standard units or things:

double

Meaning an organism or cell, or group of organisms or cells, produced asexually from one ancestor or stock, to which they are genetically identical:

clone

Meaning a contest in which people or teams compete against each other in a particular sport:

match

Meaning the sexual partner of a bird or other animal:

mate

Meaning a man or boy:

fellow

Meaning a person or thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another person or thing in a different place or situation:

counterpart

Meaning a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another:

parallel

Meaning a person or thing that closely resembles another, especially someone who looks very similar to a famous person:

lookalike

Meaning a person or thing that looks very like another:

ringer

Translation of echo

Anagrams of echo

Cohe, oche, Oech

Words that rhyme with echo

Echo, subecho, afdecho, reecho, Jecho, mallecho, Glenecho, Necho, noecho, Querecho, derecho, outecho

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