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

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

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

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

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

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

As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin America, has been abandoned. We have fallen in love with our own image, with images of our making, which turn out to be images of ourselves.
Daniel J. Boorstin

If you're in a forest, the quality of the echo is very strange because echoes back off so many surfaces of all those trees that you get this strange, itchy ricochet effect.
Brian Eno

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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