echo to something Definition

echo
noun echoes

1. The repeating of a sound caused by the sound waves striking a surface and coming back.

Thesaurus: reverberation, reiteration, repetition, reproduction.
2. A sound repeated in this way.
3. often facetious
A person who imitates or repeats what others say or think.
4. An imitation or repetition, sometimes an accidental one.

Thesaurus: imitation, reflection, parallel.
5. A trace; something which brings to mind memories or thoughts of something else.

Form: echoes (often)
6. A reflected radio or radar beam, or the visual signal it produces on a screen.
7. communications.
In the NATO alphabet: the word used to denote the letter ‘E'.
Form: Echo

verb echoes, echoed, echoing

1. To send back an echo of something.
2. To repeat (a sound or a statement).
3. To imitate or in some way be similar to something.

Thesaurus: imitate, reiterate, repeat, mimic, ape, copy, parrot; reflect, mirror, match, agree with.
intr
4. To resound; to reverberate.

Thesaurus: resound, reverberate, rebound, return, bounce back.

Derivative: echoic

formal
Said of a sound: referring to or like an echo.

Said of a word: imitating the sound it represents; onomatopoeic, eg bump.

Derivative: echoless
adj

Etymology: 14c: Greek, meaning ‘sound'.

Phrasal Verb: echo with or to something

To make (a sound) loudly, with an echo.