echo

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   an imitation or repetition

   the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life

2. 2
   noun

   a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, and so on

   Their contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau.

3. 3
   noun

   the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves

   They could hear echoes of their own footsteps.

4. 4
   verb

   to say again or imitate

   followers echoing the cries of their leaders

5. 5
   verb

   call to mind

   The words etched on the monument echoed John F. Kennedy.

6. 6
   noun

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

   The babbling echo mocks the hounds.

7. 7
   noun

   Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

   Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.

8. 8
   noun

   Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.

   The frustration with the political process that in the '60s led to the formation of resistance groups finds an echo in today's increasingly confrontational tactics.

Etymology

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)der. Latin ēchō Medieval Latin ēccōder. Middle English eccho English echo From Middle English eccho, ecco, 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.