echo

//ˈɛkoʊ//
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Noun

echoSingular
echoesPlural
1

A sound that is reflected off a surface and heard again, typically in a large or empty space.

We heard an echo in the empty hall.

2

A repetition or imitation of someone's words, ideas, or actions.

His speech was just an echo of the president's ideas.

3

A reflected radio or radar signal.

The radar detected an echo from the aircraft.

Verb

echoPresent tense
echoedPast tense
echoedPast participle
echoingPresent participle
echoesThird-person singular
1

To produce an echo; to reverberate with sound.

Their voices echoed through the empty hall.

2

To repeat or imitate what someone has said or done.

The child echoed everything his mother said.