Definition of Echo

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Definition of Echo

Echo

A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.

A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.

To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.

To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.

To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.

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.

A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.

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Echo Quotations

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdom.
Jonathan Swift

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.
Eric Hoffer

What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo

I will offer a choice, not an echo.
Barry Goldwater

An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck

Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg

I don't like to talk much with people who always agree with me. It is amusing to coquette with an echo for a little while, but one soon tires of it.
Thomas Carlyle

And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper. I have an affection for it, for it was the offspring of happy days, when death and grief were but words, which found no true echo in my heart.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

There is no love that is not an echo.
Theodor Adorno

Echo Translations

echo in Afrikaans is eggo
echo in Danish is ekko
Echo in Dutch is Echo
echo in German is Echo, Wiederhall, Echo
echo in Hungarian is visszhang
echo in Italian is eco
echo in Latin is refero
echo in Norwegian is ekko
echo in Portuguese is eco
echo in Spanish is eco
echo in Swedish is genljud, eko, eka

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