echo

noun countable

UK /ˈekəʊ/

Word Forms

singular	echo
plural	echoes

1
Sound Effect ♬♬♬♬♬♬a noise that is repeated because the sound hits a surface and returns
the echo of footsteps in the alley
Synonyms and related words
Sounds of things hitting or rubbing together
beat
bump
chink
2
an idea or phrase that is like one that has been expressed before
His argument contains clear echoes of 1980s free-market philosophy.
Synonyms and related words
Thoughts, ideas and beliefs
thought
idea
belief
1. 2a
  something that is very like a thing that happened or was produced before
  the violence of the past and its recent echoes
  Synonyms and related words
  Someone or something that is like someone or something else
  copy
  equivalent
  parallel

phrases

find an echo (in)

echo

noun countable

US /ˈekoʊ/

Word Forms

singular	echo
plural	echoes

1
Sound Effect ♬♬♬♬♬♬a noise that is repeated because the sound hits a surface and returns
the echo of footsteps in the alley
Synonyms and related words
Sounds of things hitting or rubbing together
beat
bump
chink
2
an idea or phrase that is like one that has been expressed before
His argument contains clear echoes of 1980s free-market philosophy.
Synonyms and related words
Thoughts, ideas and beliefs
thought
idea
belief
1. 2a
  something that is very like a thing that happened or was produced before
  the violence of the past and its recent echoes
  Synonyms and related words
  Someone or something that is like someone or something else
  copy
  equivalent
  parallel

phrases

find an echo (in)

echo

verb

UK /ˈekəʊ/

Word Forms

present tense
I/you/we/they	echo
he/she/it	echoes
present participle	echoing
past tense	echoed
past participle	echoed

1
intransitive Sound Effect ♬♬♬♬♬♬if a noise echoes, it is repeated because the sound hits a surface and returns
echo around/round/through:
Her question echoed around the room.
echo across:
The howl of a coyote echoed across the canyon.
Synonyms and related words
What sound can do and changing sounds
amplify
reverberate
fade
1. 1a
  if a building, space, or room echoes, noises are repeated there because it is large and empty
  She led him along deserted echoing corridors.
  Synonyms and related words
  What sound can do and changing sounds
  amplify
  reverberate
  fade
2. 1b
  if a place echoes with a particular sound, it is filled with that sound
  echo with:
  The theatre echoed with laughter.
  Synonyms and related words
  What sound can do and changing sounds
  amplify
  reverberate
  fade
2
transitive to express the ideas or feelings that someone else has expressed
Her feelings are echoed by other parents whose kids have left home.
Blake echoed the views of many players.
Synonyms and related words
To say something again, or to repeat someone else’s words
repeat
paraphrase
quote
1. 2a
  to say the same words that someone else has said
  Synonyms and related words
  To say something again, or to repeat someone else’s words
  repeat
  paraphrase
  quote
3
transitive to repeat a quality or situation
The Victorian theme is echoed in the furnishings.
This pattern of increased sales was echoed across Europe.
Synonyms and related words
To make a copy of something
copy
reproduce
duplicate

phrases

echo in your mind/head

echo

verb

US /ˈekoʊ/

Word Forms

present tense
I/you/we/they	echo
he/she/it	echoes
present participle	echoing
past tense	echoed
past participle	echoed

1
intransitive Sound Effect ♬♬♬♬♬♬if a noise echoes, it is repeated because the sound hits a surface and returns
echo around/through:
Her question echoed around the room.
echo across:
The howl of a coyote echoed across the canyon.
Synonyms and related words
What sound can do and changing sounds
amplify
reverberate
fade
1. 1a
  if a building, space, or room echoes, noises are repeated there because it is large and empty
  She led him along deserted echoing corridors.
  Synonyms and related words
  What sound can do and changing sounds
  amplify
  reverberate
  fade
2. 1b
  if a place echoes with a particular sound, it is filled with that sound
  echo with:
  The theater echoed with laughter.
  Synonyms and related words
  What sound can do and changing sounds
  amplify
  reverberate
  fade
2
transitive to say the same words that someone else has said
Synonyms and related words
To say something again, or to repeat someone else’s words
repeat
paraphrase
quote
1. 2a
  to express the ideas or feelings that someone else has expressed
  Her feelings are echoed by other parents whose kids have left home.
  Blake echoed the views of many players.
  Synonyms and related words
  To say something again, or to repeat someone else’s words
  repeat
  paraphrase
  quote
3
transitive to repeat a quality or situation
The Victorian theme is echoed in the furnishings.
This pattern of increased sales was echoed across Europe.
Synonyms and related words
To make a copy of something
copy
reproduce
duplicate

phrases

echo in your mind/head

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