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Echo   /ˈɛkoʊ/   Listen
Echo

noun
(pl. echoes)
1.
The repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves.  Synonyms: replication, reverberation, sound reflection.
2.
(Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained.
3.
A reply that repeats what has just been said.
4.
A reflected television or radio or radar beam.
5.
A close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc..  "Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man"
6.
An imitation or repetition.
verb
(past & past part. echoed; pres. part. echoing; 3d pers. sing. pres. echoes)
1.
To say again or imitate.  Synonym: repeat.
2.
Ring or echo with sound.  Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring.
3.
Call to mind.  Synonym: recall.



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"Echo" Quotes from Famous Books



... have been willing to have torn her dress; but it was her travelling dress, and too stout to tear. She might cut it carefully. Alas, she had packed her scissors, and her knife she had lent to the little boys the day before! She called again. What silence there was in the house! Her voice seemed to echo through the room. At length, as she listened, she heard ...
— The Peterkin Papers • Lucretia P Hale
... Sue had risen. Sir Marmaduke's cruel laugh had grated horribly on her ear, rousing an echo in her memory which she could not understand but which caused her to encircle the trembling figure of the old Quakeress with young, ...
— The Nest of the Sparrowhawk • Baroness Orczy
... answered, almost like an echo, the sound of the shutting gate, and, sudden as an apparition, the form of an immense dog loomed in the doorway. I was now near enough to see the savage aspect of the animal, and the gathering motion ...
— Finger Posts on the Way of Life • T. S. Arthur
... to America, the Christian, the civilized! What will the answer be? Already we can hear the faint responses, as yet vague and indistinct, the drowned murmurings of the wiser tongues. These must grow into a national anthem whose echo will challenge the powers of the world and startle them into the consciousness of the new ...
— Prize Orations of the Intercollegiate Peace Association • Intercollegiate Peace Association
... end of the first verse she thought she heard an echo of it. It seemed that off to the north somewhere she had heard an eerie "Ai-i-e!" But she listened attentively, bringing Magpie to a stop, and hearing it no more, concluded that she had ...
— Ted Strong in Montana - With Lariat and Spur • Edward C. Taylor


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