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
When you're singing you can hear the echo of people in the audience singing every single word with you, and that was that big dream that I had for myself. It's happening.
Taylor Swift
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
Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them to the world, save that the echo repeats only the last art, but fame relates all, and often more than all.
Thomas Fuller
What is history? An echo of the past in the future; a reflex from the future on the past.
Victor Hugo
Ennui is the echo in us of time tearing itself apart.
Emile M. Cioran
Poetry is an echo, asking a shadow to dance.
Carl Sandburg
An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts.
Otto von Bismarck
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
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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