echo |
noun |
A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound., Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer., A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them., A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice., To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate., To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt., To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. |