Free TranslationFree Translation
Synonyms, antonyms, pronunciation

  Home 		English Dictionary      examples: 'day', 'get rid of', 'New York Bay'




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.



Related searches:
echo chamber
echo sounder
echo sounding
echolalia
radar echo
re-echo
reecho


WordNet 3.0 © 2010 Princeton University


Advanced search
     Find words:
Starting with
Ending with
Containing
Matching a pattern  

Synonyms
Antonyms
Quotes
Words linked to  

only single words


Share |




"Echo" Quotes from Famous Books



... this longing, has his moment of ardor, when he would fain leave politics and personalities, even endearments and successes, behind, and would exchange the best year of his life for one hour at Balaklava with the "Six Hundred." It is the bounding of the Berserker blood in us, —the murmuring echo of the old death-song of Regnar Lodbrog, as he lay amid vipers in his dungeon:—"What is the fate of a brave man, but to fall amid the foremost? He who is never ...
— Atlantic Monthly, Vol. II., November, 1858., No. XIII. • Various
... supper table between them, and once again the friar sat down hopefully. He spoke his grace with unction, and was surprised to hear his guest echo the Latin words after him. The knight unlaced his helm and took it off. He appeared as a bronzed and ...
— Robin Hood • Paul Creswick
... life-long enmity with an Indian, I had bounded over the fire and struck him with all my strength full in the face. At that, instead of knifing me as an Indian ordinarily would, he broke into hyena shrieks of laughter. He, who has heard that sound, need hear it only once to have the echo ring forever in his ears; and I have heard it ...
— Lords of the North • A. C. Laut
... the houses. There were gaslights which flickered in the gale along the main road; but everything was in the densest gloom at the rear of the buildings and down the side streets. As the church clock struck two, the first stroke loud and distinct, the next like its mournful echo—as the sound was borne away by the fitful breeze, the conspirators crept with the utmost caution to the back of Johnson's house. Not a sound but their own muffled footsteps could be heard. Not a light was visible through any window. No voice except ...
— Frank Oldfield - Lost and Found • T.P. Wilson
... men to preach: they simply educated them to be Friends—and live. Those who "heard the Voice" preached. Most modern preachers do not follow a Voice—they only harken to an echo. The practical test with the Quakers was whether the man heard the "Voice" or not—if so, he could preach. Men were not licensed to preach—that is quite superfluous and absurd. Those who have to listen are the only ones to decide concerning whether the speaker has heard the "Voice" or ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Volume 9 - Subtitle: Little Journeys to the Homes of Great Reformers • Elbert Hubbard


More quotes...


Copyright © 2025 e-Free Translation.com