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Echo

A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.

Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.əʊ/, /ˈɛk.oʊ/

What “Echo” means

Noun

  1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
  2. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
  3. A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
  4. Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
  5. Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.

Verb

  1. Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
  2. Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
  3. To reflect back (a sound).
  4. To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
  5. To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.

Where the word comes from

Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *sweh₂gʰ-der. Proto-Hellenic *wākʰā́ Ancient Greek ἠχή (ēkhḗ) Proto-Indo-European *-ṓy Ancient Greek -ώ (-ṓ) Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ)bor. Latin ēchō Medieval Latin ēccōbor. Middle English eccho English echo From Middle English eccho, ecco, echo, ekko, from Medieval Latin ēccō, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

Meanings and etymology from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

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