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ˈɛk oʊecho

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. echo, reverberation, sound reflection, replicationnoun

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

    "she could hear echoes of her own footsteps"

  2. Echonoun

    (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained

  3. echonoun

    a reply that repeats what has just been said

  4. echonoun

    a reflected television or radio or radar beam

  5. echonoun

    a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.

    "his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau"; "Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man"

  6. echoverb

    an imitation or repetition

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

  7. repeat, echoverb

    to say again or imitate

    "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"

  8. resound, echo, ring, reverberateverb

    ring or echo with sound

    "the hall resounded with laughter"

  9. echo, recallverb

    call to mind

    "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"

Wiktionary

  1. echonoun

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

  2. echonoun

    The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.

  3. echonoun

    The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

  4. echoverb

    To reflect off of a surface and return to someone who has heard it already.

  5. echoverb

    To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo.

  6. echoverb

    To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).

    Sid echoed his father's point of view.

  7. Echonoun

    An oread, punished by Hera by losing her own voice and only being able to mimic that of others.

  8. Etymology: From Ἠχώ.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. ECHOnoun

    Etymology: ἤχω.

    The pleasant myrtle may teach th’ unfortunate Echo
    In these woods to resound the renowned name of a goddess. Philip Sidney, b. i.

    Babbling echo mocks the hounds,
    Replying shrilly to the well-tun’d horns,
    As if a double hunt were heard at once. William Shakespeare, Titus Andron.

    The sound, filling great spaces in arched lines, cannot be guided; therefore there hath not been any means to make artificial echoes. Francis Bacon, Natural History, №. 242.

    To you I mourn, nor to the deaf I sing;
    The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. Alexander Pope, Summer.

    ’Tis not enough no harshness gives offence;
    The sound must seem an echo to the sense. Alexander Pope, Ess. Crit.

    Wilt thou hunt?
    Thy hounds shall make the welkin answer them,
    And fetch shrill echoes from their hollow earth. William Shakespeare.

    O woods, O fountains, hillocks, dales and bow’rs!
    With other echo late I taught your shades
    To answer, and resound far other song! John Milton, Parad. Lost.

  2. To Echoverb

    To send back a voice; to return what has been uttered.

    Our modern separatists do but echo the same note. Decay of Piety.

    With peals of shouts the Tyrians praise the song;
    Those peals are echo’d by the Trojan throng. John Dryden, Æn.

    One great death deforms the dreary ground;
    The echo’d woes from distant rocks resound. Matthew Prior.

  3. To Echoverb

    At the parting
    All the church echo’d. William Shakespeare, Taming of the Shrew.

    Through rocks and caves the name of Delia sounds;
    Delia each cave and echoing rock rebounds. Alexander Pope, Autumn.

    Hark, how the sound disturbs imperious Rome!
    Shakes her proud hills, and rolls from dome to dome!
    Her miter’d princes hear the echoing noise,
    And, Albion, dread thy wrath and awful voice. Richard Blackmore.

Wikipedia

  1. Echo

    Echo is the third single off rapper Gorilla Zoes second studio album, Don't Feed Da Animals. Gorilla Zoe uses an Auto-Tune effect for this song. The song was released on iTunes March 10, 2009 and was produced by Drumma Boy. The official remix features Diddy and another with Ne-Yo and Yung Joc.

ChatGPT

  1. echo

    An echo is a sound that is reflected off a surface and heard again. It is often experienced in large empty spaces or around mountains. In a broader sense, the term "echo" can also refer to any repetition or close imitation of another's idea, style, or action.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Echonoun

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

  2. Echonoun

    fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer

  3. Echonoun

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

  4. Echonoun

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

  5. Echoverb

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

  6. Echoverb

    to repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt

  7. Echoverb

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

  8. Etymology: [L. echo, Gr. 'hchw` echo, sound, akin to 'hchh`, 'h^chos, sound, noise; cf. Skr. v to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E. voice: cf. F. cho.]

Wikidata

  1. Echo

    Echo is an accolade by the Deutsche Phono-Akademie an association of recording companies of Germany to recognize outstanding achievement in the music industry. The first ECHO Awards ceremony was held in 1992, and it was set up to honor musical accomplishments by performers for the year 1991, succeeding the Deutscher Schallplattenpreis which were awarded since 1963. Each year's winner is determined by the previous year's sales. Winners in the pop category are announced in March; the winners in the classical category in October.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Echo

    ek′ō, n. the repetition of sound caused by a sound-wave coming against some opposing surface, and being reflected: a device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line: imitation: an imitator:—pl. Echoes (ek′ōz).—v.i. to reflect sound: to be sounded back: to resound.—v.t. to send back the sound of: to repeat a thing said: to imitate: to flatter slavishly:—pr.p. ech′ōing; pa.p. ech′ōed.—ns. Ech′oism, the formation of imitative words; Ech′oist, one who repeats like an echo.—adj. Ech′oless, giving no echo, unresponsive.—ns. Echom′eter, an instrument for measuring the length of sounds; Echom′etry, the art of measuring such.—Cheer to the echo, to applaud most heartily, so that the room resounds. [L.,—Gr. ēchō, a sound.]

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Echo

    a wood-nymph in love with Narcissus, who did not return her love, in consequence of which she pined away till all that remained of her was only her voice.

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz

  1. ECHO

    The only thing that can cheat a woman out of the last word.

CrunchBase

  1. Echo

    Echo provides the industry's first and largest real-time platform, enabling the rapid implementation and scale of applications for social TV, social music, social news, social sports, social commerce and social finance. Brands and developers can leverage the Echo platform to transform their static websites and mobile apps into real-time experiences that significantly boost traffic, increase user engagement, and drive more revenue. A leader in the space, Echo currently serves over 1.5 billion streams per month for customers including ABC, Advance Digital, AMC Networks, CNBC, ESPN, iVillage, NASDAQ, Scripps Networks, Sony, The Washington Post, USA Network, XO Group and WWE.

Editors Contribution

  1. echonoun

    The silent executive committee commission expression of surprise, used to call for attention, and calculate awareness. 1.) A sound or series of sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listeners.

    The echo from our future draws through us and back to us.

    Etymology: Sounds proof of momentum in time.


    Submitted by Tehorah_Elyon on December 20, 2023  

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Mythology

  1. Echo

    (Ech′o) was a nymph who fell in love with Narcissus. But when he languished and died she pined away from grief and died also, preserving nothing but her voice, which repeats every sound that reaches her. Another fable makes Echo a daughter of Air and Tellus. She was partly deprived of speech by Juno, being allowed only to reply to questions.

    “Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv’st unseen Within thy airy shell. .     .     .     . Sweet queen of parley, daughter of the sphere, So may’st thou be translated to the skies, And give resounding grace to all heaven’s harmonies.” (Milton.)

    “Oft by Echo’s tedious tales misled.” (Ovid.)

Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. ECHO

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Echo is ranked #121590 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Echo surname appeared 142 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Echo.

    81.6% or 116 total occurrences were White.
    8.4% or 12 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
    4.2% or 6 total occurrences were Black.

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British National Corpus

  1. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'echo' in Nouns Frequency: #2141

  2. Verbs Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'echo' in Verbs Frequency: #736

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of echo in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of echo in Pythagorean Numerology is: 4

Examples of echo in a Sentence

  1. Don Marquis:

    Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

  2. Ryan Hammond:

    It really was the vision of Jeffrey Lurie, he has a personal connection to autism and he found that with the prevalence increasing and one in 59 families affected, they need a voice and the voice being the Philadelphia Eagles would really echo around the globe so we launched the Eagles Autism Challenge initially as a fundraising event. ... But this event cant be just one day and we wanted to be authentic to this commitment. We wanted to do more and the sensory room over a year in the making.

  3. Frederick Hubbard:

    Now, the question is, what do we need to do to get them to recover ? said Dr. Frank Ridgleyhead of conservation and research at Zoo Miami. Biologists believe they have the answer. Executives of the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary, a nonprofit organization dedicated to creating habitats for wildlife, in February finished building what they claim is the largest bat house in the world in an effort to save Floridas high flyers. Nobody else is doing this kind of work. Not on this scale, said Frederick Hubbard, the sanctuarys executive director. The two-tier structure can house up to 250,000 bats. The University of Florida boasts large bat houses of The University of Florida own.According to the [ UF ] web site, theyre the biggest occupied bat houses in the world, Frederick Hubbard told the Miami Herald. Our bat house is technically bigger. Were trying to get the wording right on that. Frederick Hubbard says the batstend to form colonies, living together and procreating. The new two-tier bat house can hold up to 250,000 total bats. ( Elina Shirazi/Fox News) Theres usually a dominant male, a large male who establishes and claims these coveted kinds of spaces and then he tries to attract females and the females tend to then be attracted to a male who is going to defend the territory and keep a safe space for them, Ridgley said. CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP Ridgley says the bats are vital to biodiversity and in fact helpful to humans. Theyre cleaning up our skies. Theyre providing all these services and in some parts of the country, you know, bats literally provide billions of dollars of services to the residents, Ridgley said. Ridgley said its hard to know the history of the bats since they were only discovered as a unique species in 2004. There was very little known about this bat just about a decade ago. I mean they only knew of one place where they were roosting and it was a mystery across their whole range here in South Florida. Anything about them, you know, what kind of groups they had, what they need to survive. So there was a lot of intensive study going into answering some of these questions, said Ridgley. Ridgley estimates their population is now only in the hundreds, and technology is helping them to keep track. One device they use, an echo meter, plugs into a cell phone and identifies the type of bat and itslocation based off of sound. They do a type of echolocation and supposedly they have some recorded sounds that theyre going to be able to put up into the bat-house that will attract them, said Frederick Hubbard. Creators claim this bat house at the Patch of Heaven Sanctuary is the largest in the world. Frederick Hubbard said that if their project accomplishes its aim, it may help rewrite the fate of these bats who have lost almost all of their habitat. For now, Frederick Hubbard said they are patiently waiting for the bats to rent out their space. Come home.

  4. James Clapper:

    I do want to just echo one thing that( former CIA Director) John Brennan said and that this is not going to silence the administration's critics.

  5. Ralph Waldo Emerson:

    Better to be a nettle in the side of your friend than his echo.

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