Thesaurus: echo

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1. n. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
2. n. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
3. n. A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
4. n. A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.
5. v. t. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
6. v. t. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
7. v. i. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
8. n. (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained
9. n. the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
10. n. a reply that repeats what has just been said
11. n. a reflected television or radio or radar beam
12. n. a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.