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Echo   /ˈɛkoʊ/   Listen
Echo

noun
(pl. echoes)
1.
The repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves.  Synonyms: replication, reverberation, sound reflection.
2.
(Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained.
3.
A reply that repeats what has just been said.
4.
A reflected television or radio or radar beam.
5.
A close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc..  "Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man"
6.
An imitation or repetition.
verb
(past & past part. echoed; pres. part. echoing; 3d pers. sing. pres. echoes)
1.
To say again or imitate.  Synonym: repeat.
2.
Ring or echo with sound.  Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring.
3.
Call to mind.  Synonym: recall.



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"Echo" Quotes from Famous Books



... the opera house of birds; the woods, green, imparadisaical, mystic, tranquillizing—to the poet perhaps when all is well—but to us, they seemed haunted by spirits of evil, the yells of the demons seemed to echo and reecho; but an indefinable something seemed to sympathize with the infinite pathos of our lives, and at last sleep, "the brother of death," folded us in his ...
— The Gentleman from Everywhere • James Henry Foss
... commerce and agriculture, by the press of all political colors, and by Congress. The Minister of Ultramar in Madrid recognized the gravity of the situation, and it is said that the lamentations of the people of Puerto Rico found an echo even at the foot ...
— The History of Puerto Rico - From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation • R.A. Van Middeldyk
... the scholastic among the dietary of La Quinte, or of any possible Chimaera buzzing at greatest intensity in the extremest vacuum. On the other hand, some of us are haunted by the consideration, "Was there ever any human being more likely than Francois Rabelais to echo (with the slightest change) the words ascribed to Divinity in that famous piece which is taken, on good external and ...
— A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 - From the Beginning to 1800 • George Saintsbury
... Fond Echo seems to like the sport, And join the jovial cry; The woods, the hills, the sound retort, And music fills the sky, When a-hunting we ...
— The Home Book of Verse, Vol. 3 (of 4) • Various
... had shut the door after the doctor I started shouting for Therese. "Come down at once, you wretched hypocrite," I yelled at the foot of the stairs in a sort of frenzy as though I had been a second Ortega. Not even an echo answered me; but all of a sudden a small flame flickered descending from the upper darkness and Therese appeared on the first floor landing carrying a lighted candle in front of a livid, hard face, closed against remorse, compassion, ...
— The Arrow of Gold - a story between two notes • Joseph Conrad


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