echo
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1.0
- noun
- /ˈɛkoʊ/
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- When she shouted into the canyon, her voice came back to her as an echo off the cliffs.
- hear the echoes
- mountain echoes
And he'd create these cool rhythms playing against the echo on kick and snare and hi hat.
- And he'd create these cool rhythms playing against the echo on kick and snare and hi hat.
- Any kind of echo in this environment.
Examples
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From his room, he watches the shifting lights and hears the echo of the amplified narration.
Fiction book (1991) -
Her voice wavered like an echo in the bottom of a dry well.
Fiction book (1991) -
- Is there an echo in here?
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Is there an echo in here?
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Every beat of that stolen heart is the echo of my voice in your head.
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Why do I feel like there's an echo in here?
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Walls are listening when we talk, making echoes as we walk.
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And the echoes from the walls are so clear.
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Beneath the motor's hum was the echo of a past I pushed aside in my busy American life.
Academic text (2011) -
When the wind blew, they carried the echoes of his whisper through the breeze.
Synonyms
7
6.1
Sound that keeps going because it bounces off walls, making it sound bigger
3
6.7
A sound that continues after the source stops because it bounces off walls
A sound that comes back after the first sound
A bounce of sound you hear again after it hits a surface
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 Loud
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1.0
- Specialized
3
6.7
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word echo comes from a character in a Greek story called Echo and from an old Greek word for 'sound'. So an echo is a sound that comes back after it bounces off a wall or mountain.