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Definition of Echoey
1. full of echoes [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Echoey
Literary usage of Echoey
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Americans at Home: Pen-and-ink Sketches of American Men, Manners, and by David Macrae (1870)
"A person who goes once to a prayer-meeting, and sits listening for an hour in a
dim, cold, echoey church, with one draught blowing on the nape of his neck ..."
2. Our English by Adams Sherman Hill (1890)
"We read of sounds hollow and "echoey;" of "mayoral" qualities ; of " faddists " (people
with fads) ; of a bow which ..."
3. Beside the Narraguagus: And Other Poems by Arthur John Lockhart, Burton Wellesley Lockhart (1895)
"Soon the echoey shrieks distress All the quiet wilderness, Falling off in woeful
plight, Down the shadowy aisles of night! ..."
4. The Rise of the Social Entrepreneur by Charles Leadbeater (1997)
"So for instance, the centre's youth project does not provide an echoey hall, with
the occasional disco and game of table-tennis. ..."
5. All Gothic 1: The Boats of the Glen Garrig & the House on the Borderland by William Hope Hodgson (2001)
"“Having secured these, I went to my study; yet, somehow, for once, the place
jarred upon me; it seemed so huge and echoey. For some time, I tried to read; ..."
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