Definition of Echo

1. Noun. The repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves. "She could hear echoes of her own footsteps"

Exact synonyms: Replication, Reverberation, Sound Reflection
Generic synonyms: Reflection, Reflectivity, Reflexion
Specialized synonyms: Re-echo
Derivative terms: Reverberate

2. Verb. To say again or imitate. "Followers echoing the cries of their leaders"
Exact synonyms: Repeat
Specialized synonyms: Recite, Cuckoo, Reecho, Parrot, Regurgitate, Reproduce
Generic synonyms: Emit, Let Loose, Let Out, Utter

3. Noun. (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained.
Category relationships: Greek Mythology
Generic synonyms: Nymph

4. Verb. Ring or echo with sound. "The woods echo with many kinds of birds "; "The hall resounded with laughter"
Exact synonyms: Resound, Reverberate, Ring
Generic synonyms: Go, Sound
Specialized synonyms: Consonate, Reecho, Reecho, Bong
Derivative terms: Resonant, Reverberance, Reverberant, Reverberation, Reverberative, Ring, Ringing

5. Noun. A reply that repeats what has just been said.
Generic synonyms: Reply, Response
Specialized synonyms: Echolalia

6. Verb. Call to mind. "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"
Exact synonyms: Recall
Generic synonyms: Resemble

7. Noun. A reflected television or radio or radar beam.
Generic synonyms: Reflection, Reflectivity, Reflexion
Category relationships: Electronics

8. Noun. A close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.. "Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man"
Generic synonyms: Analog, Analogue, Parallel

9. Noun. An imitation or repetition. "The flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life"
Generic synonyms: Imitation

Definition of Echo

1. n. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

2. v. t. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.

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

4. n. 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.

Definition of Echo

1. a repetition of sound by reflection of sound waves [n ECHOES or ECHOS] / to produce an echo [v -ED, -ING, -ES]

Medical Definition of Echo

1. Origin: L. Echo, Gr. Echo, sound, akin to, sound, noise; cf. Skr. Va to sound, bellow; perh. Akin to E. Voice: cf. F. Echo. 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." (Shak) "The woods shall answer, and the echo ring." (Pope) 2. Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. "Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them." (Fuller) "Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart." (R. L. Stevenson) 3. 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." (Milton) 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." (Milton) Echo organ, 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." (Shak) Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Echo

echinostomiasis
echinozoa
echinulate
echinus
echinus
echinuses
Echinus esculentus
Echis
echistatin
Echium
Echium vulgare
echiuroid
echiuroidea
echiuroids
echo (current term)
echo (current term)
echo-free
echo-planar imaging
echoacousia
echoaortography
echocardiogram
echocardiogram
echocardiograms
echocardiograph
echocardiographic differentiation
echocardiography
echocardiography
echoed
echoencephalogram
echoencephalograph

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