Echo word meaning and definition
Beside meaning and definition for word "echo", on this page you can find other interesting information too, like synonyms or related words. On bottom of the page we have fun area, like tarot cards, numerology for these Four characters, how to write "echo" with bar codes or hand signs and more.. Table of Contents:
|
• Meaning and definition |
• Letter statistic • Hand signs, morse code • Tarot cards, numerology • Other fun |
Do you like word(s) »echo«? |  |
Meaning and definition for "echo" word
[noun] a reply that repeats what has just been said
[noun] (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained
[verb] to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of their leaders."
[verb] ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
[verb] call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"
Click here if you Hate scroll, Show all | Too long, show scroll
(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. --Milton.
(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. --Milton. {Echo organ} (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally superseded by the swell.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. --M. Arnold. I would applaud thee to the very echo, That should applaud again. --Shak.
\Ech"o\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Echoed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {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. --Dryden. The wondrous sound Is echoed on forever. --Keble. 2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they ?nvied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them. --Macaulay.
\Ech"o\, v. i. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. ``Echoing noise.'' --Blackmore.
\Ech"o\, n.; pl. {Echoes}. [L. echo, Gr. ? echo.] (Whist)
(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.
Synonyms for echo
recall, repeat, replication, resound, reverberate, reverberation, ring, sound reflection
See also: bong | consonate | cuckoo | emit | go | let loose | let out | nymph | parrot | recite | reecho | reecho | re-echo | reflection | reflectivity | reflexion | regurgitate | reply | reproduce | resemble | response | sound | utter |
Related terms: beat signal, be inspired, be involved, be reflected, be sent back, bounceback, catch the flame, chorus, conformist, dissembler, dissimulator, do a repeat, Doppler signal, doubling, fake, faker, go like, organ manual, picture, quotation, repartee, rescription, RF echoes, riposte, rise, rumble, say in reply, send back, talk back, video signal
The fun area, different aproach to word »echo«
Let's analyse "echo" as pure text. This string has Four letters in Two syllables and Two vowels. 50% of vowels is 11.4% more then average English word. Written in backwards: OHCE. Average typing speed for these characters is 1090 milliseconds. [info]
- |
Numerology Hearts desire number calculated from vowels:
echo: 5 + 6 = 11, reduced: 11 . and the final result is Eleven. |
|
Search internet for "echo"
> Search images |
Tarot cards
Page generated in 0.0016 seconds.