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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.


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