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Echo   /ˈɛkoʊ/   Listen
noun
Echo  n.  (pl. echoes)  
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." "The woods shall answer, and the echo ring."
2.
Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. "Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them." "Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his heart."
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."
(b)
(Gr. Myth.) 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."
4.
(Whist, Contract Bridge)
(a)
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 signaled for trumps.
(b)
A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
Echo organ (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; generally superseded by the swell.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. "I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again."


verb
Echo  v. t.  (past & past part. echoed; pres. part. 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." "The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever."
2.
To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. "They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them."


Echo  v. i.  To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise."





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"Echo" Quotes from Famous Books



... Naples, could have been touched with compassion at the recital of the suffering of French heretics. Yet the paradoxes of history are too numerous to permit us to reject as apocryphal a story so widely current, or to explain it away by making it only a popular echo of the convictions of the more enlightened as to the views that were most befitting the ...
— The Rise of the Hugenots, Vol. 1 (of 2) • Henry Martyn Baird
... telephone that we call the receiver. This was practically the sum total of Bell's invention, and remains to-day as he made it. It was then, and is yet, the most sensitive instrument that has ever been put to general use in any country. It opened up a new world of sound. It would echo the tramp of a fly that walked across a table, or repeat in New Orleans the prattle of a child in New York. This was what the young men received, and this was all. There were no switchboards of any account, no cables of any ...
— The History of the Telephone • Herbert N. Casson
... stretched across to a port of refuge under a high mountain about six miles away, and came to in nine fathoms close under the face of a perpendicular cliff. Here my own voice answered back, and I named the place "Echo Mountain." Seeing dead trees farther along where the shore was broken, I made a landing for fuel, taking, besides my ax, a rifle, which on these days I never left far from hand; but I saw no living thing here, except a small spider, which had nested in a dry log that I boated ...
— Sailing Alone Around The World • Joshua Slocum
... his face, he turned quickly toward the hedge, as a voice that was like an echo of the laugh said: "Good morning! Pardon me for startling you—you looked so much like the little boy that I ...
— Their Yesterdays • Harold Bell Wright
... as now cut off from the country by innumerable acres of bricks and mortar. The green fields at that time were not far away from Spenser's birthplace. And thus, not without knowledge and symnpathy, but with appreciative variations, Spenser could re-echo Marot's 'Eglogue au Roy sous les noms de Pan et Robin,' and its descriptions of a boy's rural wanderings and delights. See his ...
— A Biography of Edmund Spenser • John W. Hales


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