echo

Meaning

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. The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
6. An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
7. Alternative letter-case form of Echo from the NATO/ICAO Phonetic Alphabet.
8. 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 signalled for trumps.
9. A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
10. An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people.
11. (colloquial) Clipping of echocardiography.
12. (colloquial) Clipping of echocardiogram.

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.
6. To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

Synonyms

resound

reverberate

reverberation

resonate

sound

🔉

ring

💍

repercussion

repeat

🔁

replication

noise

sound reflection

re-echo

reaction

rumble

response

mirror

🪞

copy

reflection

thunder

🌩️

reflect

imitation

resonance

roar

respond

mimic

imitate

recall

ring out

clang

boom

💥

backwash

answer

reflected wave

reply

backward wave

echo wave

resounding

re echo

reactive

redound

reecho

reflex

reflexion

reiterate

relaying

reminiscence

repercussions

repetition

retell

retort

return

reverb

sign

simulate

sonority

sonorousness

speech

stylize

thirst

ting

trace

vibrate

voice

respond to

rebounded wave

information

stylise

return wave

revoice

back wave

down coming wave

acoustic

returning wave

angry

😠

ape

backlash

blare

buzz

carrying

clatter

clink

clone

comply with

conventionalize

counterfeit

desolate

difficult

dreary

dumbness

echocardiography

emulate

feedback

give back

heard

hubbub

hum

imitator

influence

joke

🤣

make fun of

mock

murmur

noisy

parody

parrot

🦜

peal

projection

react

reacting

reactionary

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈɛkəʊ/

Etymology

From Middle English eccho, ecco, ekko, from Medieval Latin ecco, from Latin echo, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.