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echo
/ˈɛk.oʊ/
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What does echo mean?
noun
- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
More meanings (29)
noun
- (figuratively) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- (figuratively) Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- (figuratively) An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
- Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
- 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 signalled for trumps.
- A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
- An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.
- Clipping of echocardiography.
- Clipping of echocardiogram.
verb
- Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
- (figuratively) Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
- To reflect back (a sound).
- (figuratively) To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
- To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
- To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
proper noun
- An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.
- An unincorporated community in Dale County, Alabama.
- An unincorporated community in Metcalfe County, Kentucky.
- A census-designated place in Rapides Parish, Louisiana.
- A township in Antrim County, Michigan.
- A township and minor city therein, in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota.
- A minor city in Umatilla County, Oregon.
- An unincorporated community in Armstrong County, Pennsylvania.
- A populated place in Orange County, Texas.
- A census-designated place in Summit County, Utah, named after Echo Canyon.
- An unincorporated community in Wayne County, West Virginia.
- 60 Echo, a main belt asteroid.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈɛk.oʊ/
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“Echo is a beautiful nymph, Davy, living far away in the woods, and laughing at the world from among the hills.”
And the midshipman, making himself as it were the echo of the body, cried, “Commander, it is ‘they’ come back again!”
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“It’s a pity he cannot kill himself with drink,” observed Heathcliff, muttering an echo of curses back when the door was shut.
That which an age considers evil is usually an unseasonable echo of what was formerly considered good--the atavism of an old ideal.
Slowly Hook let his head emerge from his ruff, and listened so intently that he could have caught the echo of the tick.