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echo English

Meaning echo meaning

What does echo mean?
Definitions in simple English

echo Noun

— A reflected sound that is heard again by a person. — The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

echo Verb

— To repeat back what someone else has just said.

echo

— noun the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves she could hear echoes of her own footsteps — verb to say again or imitate followers echoing the cries of their leaders — verb (= resound, ring) ring or echo with sound the hall resounded with laughter — verb call to mind His words echoed John F. Kennedy — noun a reflected television or radio or radar beam — noun a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man — noun a reply that repeats what has just been said — noun an imitation or repetition the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life

Echo

— noun (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained

Synonyms echo synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as echo?

echo English » English

resound reverberate reverberation resonate sound ring repercussion repeat sound reflection replication re-echo noise rumble response reaction mirror thunder roar respond resonance reflection reflect imitation copy ring out resounding reply reflected wave recall re echo mimic imitate echo wave clang boom backwash backward wave answer voice vibrate trace ting thirst stylize stylise speech sonorousness sonority simulate sign

Topics echo topics

What do people use echo to talk about?
Person Sense, perceive Hear

Sound

  • What words refer to a sound that is repeated faintly?
    echo
Language and thought Communication Say Talk about a subject

Repeat
Language and thought Communication Say Ask

Answer
States Quality Type, kind Compare

Like, similar

Conjugation echo conjugation

How do you conjugate echo?

echo · verb

Examples echo examples

How do I use echo in a sentence?

Simple sentences

We heard the echo of our voices from the other side of the valley.
His opinion does not arouse any echo in his colleagues.
Your eyes reflect the echo of my voice.
Echo was very happy that his mother had returned.
Echo was getting tired and hungry. It takes a lot of energy for a bat to fly.
Back at their home in the pine tree, Echo's mother told him a story.
Echo fell asleep next to his mother dreaming of the bat cave.
Your life is the echo of your mindset.
Your life is the echo of your mental attitude.
Your life is the echo of your way of thinking.
Your life is the echo of your mentality.
If you shout from the top of a cliff, you can hear the echo of your voice.
The sound of a kiss is not as loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts much longer.

Movie subtitles

Echo to tango.
Why, that's an echo, sir.
Must we have the echo?
Take her out of this valley and she'll fade away like an echo.
The houses have inner courtyards, which are like ceilingless cells that echo like wells and interconnect by means of the terraces above.
You sound like an echo.
It was probably an echo.
Bad echo.
What an echo!
These words are on your lips, but they don't find an echo in your hearts.
It's an echo, yeah.
Sure, it's an echo!
It's a wonderful echo.
It's a swell echo.
Stop it! You sound like an echo.
The sounds of drums and cymbals echo. A magic drink is drunk which, throws the masses into ecstasy.
An echo from a subterranean cave, perhaps.
If thou couldst, doctor, cast the water of my land, find her disease, and purge it to a sound and pristine health, I would applaud thee to the very echo that should applaud again.
An echo will always sound. But, sometimes the human brain sleeps.
Where're you going, Little Sir Echo?
I would rush to the valley of my echo.
So with no echo, no tracks.
Hear the echo.
Almost as if God Almighty has decided to erase the earth the walls, all traces, even the echo of the few things that happen around here.
All I have now to comfort me is the distant echo of her voice. The imagined sound of her footsteps.

News and current affairs

The theme, style, and echo of his work says a lot, I think, about our simplified world.
Some Europeans suggest that Asian central banks should hold a greater part of their reserves in euros, an echo of the General's unsuccessful attempt to force America to its knees by selling dollars for gold.
Moreover, China's surging growth will echo throughout much of Asia, including (in somewhat muted form) in Japan.
Last month's massive demonstrations in Hong Kong, when over half a million residents poured into the streets in protest against the government of Chief Executive Tung Chee-hwa, continues to echo.
One of their priorities is to attack the central bank and slander its governor, Leszek Balcerowicz, the iconic father of Poland's economic transformation, with accusations that echo those of the Stalinist era.
Accurate analysis of what is taking place on the ground is essential, but this can prove difficult in an echo chamber of globalized cultural icons.
Many investors echo Soros.
As the world looks to Silicon Valley and sees an echo chamber of self-righteous conceit, mature and law-abiding technology companies are assumed to be inside it, too.
But the other finance ministers did not echo Geithner's warnings.
To some extent, Xtify is an echo of Weinreich's other venture, MeetMoi, a real-time dating site that uses mobile-phone location technology and interest profiles to help users find like-minded strangers.
Interestingly, an echo of the ideas mooted by radical anti-globalists can be found in someinitiatives coming from the right.
So by the time Italy's six-month presidency of the EU concludes, the rude reception Berlusconi received at the European Parliament may find an echo at home.
Consider the Brazilian women who are coming forward to talk publicly about having been raped on public buses - attacks that echo similar assaults in India and Egypt.
The crisis of national politics has consequences that echo far beyond the borders of individual countries.
The Nazis must have reveled in the knowledge that their virulent anti-Semitism found an echo - sometimes not so faint - in the rest of Europe.
If the Gaza campaign turns Lebanon-like, with a humanitarian catastrophe, ongoing bombardment of Israeli civilians, or both, domestic criticism will echo loud and clear.
Whoever wins, the results will echo across Latin America.
But they echo a new wave of resistance by Palestinians that goes beyond physical assaults - reflected, for example, in the recent arson attack on a Jewish shrine in Nablus.
Economists at the United Nations call for a Green New Deal - a deliberate echo of the energizing vision of United States President Franklin Roosevelt during the Great Depression of the 1930's.
No, the surprise was that it took so long for communists to trot out this old card, and that the echo was so feeble.
Racan's insistence on unanimity is an echo not only of Tudjman, but also of Racan's own communist past.

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