echo

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Plural

echoes

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

present (v1)

echo

past (v2)

echoed

past participle (v3)

echoed

present participle

echoing

3rd person singular

echoes

Noun

Noun

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A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

1. 1.A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

   • The babbling echo mocks the hounds.

2. 2.An utterance repeating what has just been said.

3. 3.A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.

4. 4.Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

   • Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
   • Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart.

Verb

Verb

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A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

1. 1.Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.

   • With each clap of thunder echoing from one high building to another the noise was terrific.

2. 2.Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.

3. 3.To reflect back (a sound).

   • The wondrous sound / Is echoed on forever.
   • Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.

4. 4.To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).

   • Sid echoed his father’s point of view.
   • His views were echoed by The Economist, which feared that the effects of modernisation would be no more than “chromium-plated” inefficiency caused by unimaginative railway management and adverse union reaction.

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