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echo

echo is a 4-letter English word with 16 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 9 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

4 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 9 · 16 senses

Definitions

  1. 1noun

    A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.

  2. 2noun

    Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.

  3. 3noun

    A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.

  4. 4noun

    A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice.

  5. 5transitive verb

    To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.

  6. 6transitive verb

    To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.

  7. 7intransitive verb

    To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.

  8. 8noun

    an imitation or repetition

    "the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life"

  9. 9noun

    a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.

    "his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau"

    "Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man"

  10. 10noun

    the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves

    "she could hear echoes of her own footsteps"

    Synonyms

    replicationreverberation
  11. 11noun

    a reflected television or radio or radar beam

  12. 12noun

    a reply that repeats what has just been said

  13. 13noun

    (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained

  14. 14verb

    to say again or imitate

    "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"

    Synonyms

    repeat
  15. 15verb

    ring or echo with sound

    "the hall resounded with laughter"

    Synonyms

    resoundreverberatering
  16. 16verb

    call to mind

    "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"

    Synonyms

    recall

Synonyms

replicationreverberationrepeatresoundreverberateringrecall

Common word forms

echosechoedechoerechoesechoingechoizeecholess

Words from these letters

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