echo
(noun) an imitation or repetition; “the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client’s still life”
echo
(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”
echo, reverberation, sound reflection, replication
(noun) the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves; “she could hear echoes of her own footsteps”
echo
(noun) a reflected television or radio or radar beam
echo
(noun) a reply that repeats what has just been said
Echo
(noun) (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained
repeat, echo
(verb) to say again or imitate; “followers echoing the cries of their leaders”
resound, echo, ring, reverberate
(verb) ring or echo with sound; “the hall resounded with laughter”
echo, recall
(verb) call to mind; “His words echoed John F. Kennedy”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
echo (countable and uncountable, plural echoes or echos)
A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
An utterance repeating what has just been said.
(poetry) A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
(figurative) Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
(computing) The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.
(whist, bridge) 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.
(whist, bridge) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
(medicine, colloquial, uncountable) Clipping of echocardiography.
(medicine, colloquial, countable) Clipping of echocardiogram.
echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)
(of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off a surface and return.
(transitive) To reflect back (a sound).
(by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
(computing, transitive) To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
(intransitive, whist, bridge) To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.
• See also imitate
• Choe, HCEO, oche
Echo
(Greek mythology) An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.
(astronomy) 60 Echo, a main belt asteroid.
• Choe, HCEO, oche
Source: Wiktionary
Ech"o, n.; pl. Echoes. Etym: [L. echo, Gr. va to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. Ă©cho.]
1. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. The babbling echo mocks the hounds. Shak. The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. Pope.
2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them. Fuller. Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart. R. L. Stevenson.
3. (a) (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them. Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen Within thy airy shell. Milton. (b) (Gr. Myth.)
Definition: A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice. Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch. Milton. Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell.
– Echo stop (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for producing the soft effect of distant sound.
– To applaud to the echo, to give loud and continuous applause. M. Arnold. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. Shak.
Ech"o, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Echoed; p. pr. & vb. n. Echoing.
– 3d pers. sing. pres. Echoes (.]
1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Dryden. The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever. Keble.
2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they Macaulay.
Ech"o, v. i.
Definition: To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
24 March 2025
(adjective) (music) marked by or composed of disconnected parts or sounds; cut short crisply; “staccato applause”; “a staccato command”; “staccato notes”
The Boston Tea Party helped popularize coffee in America. The hefty tea tax imposed on the colonies in 1773 resulted in America switching from tea to coffee. In the lead up to the Revolutionary War, it became patriotic to sip java instead of tea. The Civil War made the drink more pervasive. Coffee helped energize tired troops, and drinking it became an expression of freedom.
