(of light or an image) To bend back or mirror
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A sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener
“I thought, perhaps, I had been making the noise and was hearing my own echo bounce off the trees.”
A close parallel to an idea, feeling, or event
“And in an echo of past events in Britain, thousands of civil servants will be made redundant over the next two years.”
A characteristic that is suggestive of something else
“The situation has an echo of Riemann's classical work on gas dynamics.”
A loud, deep resounding noise
Someone who mimics the behaviour or actions of another
An implicit meaning, as opposed to a hidden meaning
Something that occurs or is done again
The physical quality of a space for performing music
The repetition of consonants at the beginning of two or more words immediately succeeding each other, or at short intervals
The resultant occurrence
A verbal or written answer
The character and atmosphere of a place
An act or an instance of repeating something said or written
The visual image formed by an echocardiograph
A thing that can be heard
To resound or reverberate with (a sound or sounds)
“I know how the sounds echo off the walls of the white cliffs with coyotes chiming in close by.”
To repeat (someone's words or opinions), typically to express agreement
“His recent remarks echo what he said in October during an interview with Forbes.”
To repeat what was previously said or expressed
Look or be like
To evoke or call an image or memory to mind
Say something in response to something someone has said
To rebound off something wildly in a seemingly random direction
(of light or an image) To bend back or mirror
Tell someone about something
Come close to
To speak or say something in unison or at the same time
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