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echo

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1. echo - Noun

2. echo - Verb

3. Echo - Proper noun

Meaning

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

Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.

A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.

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

To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.

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

Source: Webster's dictionary

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the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life Source: Internet

his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau Source: Internet

Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man Source: Internet

she could hear echoes of her own footsteps Source: Internet

followers echoing the cries of their leaders Source: Internet

the hall resounded with laughter Source: Internet

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