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echo

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English

Etymology

From Latin echo from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhō) from ἠχή (ēkhē, “sound”)

Pronunciation

Noun

echo (plural echoes or echos)

  1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
    • 1960 P. G. Wodehouse, Jeeves in the Offing, chapter X:
      “Bertie! I've been hunting for you all over the place!” “I was having a chat with Swordfish in his pantry. Something wrong?” “Something wrong!” “Don't you like the Red Room?” “The Red Room!” I gathered from his manner that he had not come to beef about his sleeping accommodation. “Then what is your little trouble?” “My little trouble!” I felt that this sort of thing must be stopped at its source. It was only ten minutes to dressing-for-dinner time, and we could go on along these lines for hours. “Listen, old crumpet,” I said patiently. “Make up your mind whether you are my old friend Reginald Herring or an echo in the Swiss mountains. If you're simply going to repeat every word I say –”
  2. (computing): The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
  3. The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Derived terms

Terms derived from echo
  • echopathy
  • echophonocardiography, echophony
  • echo-ranging

Verb

to echo (third-person singular simple present echoes, present participle echoing, simple past and past participle echoed)

  1. (of a sound or sound waves, intransitive) To reflect off of a surface and return to someone who has heard it already.
  2. (by extension, transitive) To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo.
  3. (by extension, transitive) To repeat (another's speech, opinion, etc.).
    Sid echoed his father's point of view.

Synonyms

Translations

to repeat back what another has just said
  • Dutch: echoën nl(nl)
  • German: widerhallen de(de), wiederholen de(de), zurückwerfen de(de)
  • Greek: ηχώ el(el) (ichó), αντηχώ el(el) (antichó), αντιλαλώ el(el) (antilaló)
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  • Marathi: प्रतिध्वनी (pratidhvanī) m
  • Sanskrit: प्रतिध्वनिः (pratidhvanihi) m

Anagrams

Dutch

Verb

echo

  1. first-person singular present indicative of echoën.
  2. imperative of echoën.

Latin

Noun

echo f (plural echus)

  1. echo

Declension

Case Singular Plural
nominative echo echūs
genitive echūs echuum
dative echuī echibus
accusative echum echūs
ablative echū echibus
vocative echo echūs

Polish

Pronunciation

Noun

echo n.

  1. echo

Declension

declension of echo
singular plural
nominative echo echa
genitive echa ech
dative echu echom
accusative echo echa
instrumental echem echami
locative echu echach
vocative echo echa

Spanish

Verb

echo (infinitive echar)

  1. First-person singular indicative of echar.

 

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