echo
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3.2
- noun
- /ˈɛkoʊ/
:
eco
- His artwork is an echo of the styles that were popular in the 1970s.
- echoes of the past
- visual echoes
- create an echo
Nevertheless, it still has some of the echoes of the same challenges.
- Nevertheless, it still has some of the echoes of the same challenges.
- Are the ways you treat me nothing but an echo of how I treat you?
- But I believe that there is hope for us in the echoes of Britain's own history.
- It may be a far off gleam or echo of evangelium in the real world.
- Are we going to have the same echoes again?
- So we find a lot of echoes in history and myth to what's going on today.
- I mean, self love saying that, you know, it's still, there's an echo there, a shadow of self love.
- You are the echo of a time when Eagle spoke to us and nurtured us.
- And you know, I do think we can sometimes find it difficult to step out of our own echo chamber, our own value system.
Examples
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Nevertheless, it still has some of the echoes of the same challenges.
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There is loneliness here, an echo of desperation under this steeply pitched ceiling.
Fiction book (1991) -
Are the ways you treat me nothing but an echo of how I treat you?
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Because I see echoes of myself in you.
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You are the echo of a time when Eagle spoke to us and nurtured us.
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And you can still find echoes of that in parts of today's culture.
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For those who survived, the echoes of the war experience linger for a lifetime.
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For a short while, Origen's ideas found echoes in the writings of other important theologians.
Academic text (1993) -
Aren't they the absolute echo of the saddle oxfords we wore at Miss Pritchard's?
Fiction book (1994) -
And the echoes of persecution and atrocities will not be stilled.
Synonyms
44
2.0
Doing or saying something again
19
3.0
Copying another person's actions or speech to learn from them
10
3.4
Taking words, ideas, or styles from other people and using them in your work
3
4.9
An action of saying or doing the same thing again to make it clear and show its importance
2
4.6
Copying someone's voice, face and actions to entertain or trick people
1
9.9
Making art that copies real life or someone's words
Saying someone else's words in a new way to make them clearer
Copying someone's actions or words to make fun of them
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
1
5.3
A device that measures water depth by sending sound and timing the echo
- Specialized
1
6.0
A signal that bounces back to a radio device and shows where something is
- Specialized
A way to find water depth and underwater objects by sending sound and measuring its return time
How Similar
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word echo also came to mean an imitation or copy because of the Greek character Echo, who only repeated others, so an echo of an idea is something that repeats or copies it.