echo
Meaning of echo
noun
- 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
- a close parallel to an idea, feeling, or event.
his love for her found an echo in her own feelings
- a person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another.
Clarendon, whom they reckoned the faithful echo of their master's intentions
- used in names of newspapers.
the South Wales Echo
- a code word representing the letter E, used in radio communication.
- 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.
- (of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.
their footsteps echoed on the metal catwalks
- (of an object or event) be reminiscent of or have shared characteristics with.
a blue suit that echoed the colour of her eyes
- 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
- (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:
Meaning Echo:
Meaning repeat:
Meaning resound:
Meaning recall:
Meaning (of a loud noise) be repeated several times as an echo:
Meaning an image seen in a mirror or shiny surface:
Meaning unmistakable; emphatic:
Meaning an act or sound of ringing:
Meaning the recurrence of an action or event:
Meaning the action of repeating something, typically for emphasis or clarity:
Meaning a thing that is said, written, or done as a reaction to a question, statement, or situation:
Meaning one of two or more identical things:
Meaning a thing made to be similar or identical to another:
Meaning an exact copy or model of something, especially one on a smaller scale:
Meaning an exact copy, especially of written or printed material:
Meaning the action or process of copying something:
Meaning the action of using someone or something as a model:
Meaning one of two children or animals born at the same birth:
Meaning a thing which is twice as large as usual or is made up of two standard units or things:
Meaning an organism or cell, or group of organisms or cells, produced asexually from one ancestor or stock, to which they are genetically identical:
Meaning a contest in which people or teams compete against each other in a particular sport:
Meaning the sexual partner of a bird or other animal:
Meaning a man or boy:
Meaning a person or thing that corresponds to or has the same function as another person or thing in a different place or situation:
Meaning a person or thing that is similar or analogous to another:
Meaning a person or thing that closely resembles another, especially someone who looks very similar to a famous person:
Meaning a person or thing that looks very like another:
Translation of echo
Anagrams of echo
Words that rhyme with echo
Echo, subecho, afdecho, reecho, Jecho, mallecho, Glenecho, Necho, noecho, Querecho, derecho, outecho
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