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. noun. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound.
2. noun. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
3. noun. A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
4. noun. 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. transitive verb. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate.
6. transitive verb. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
7. intransitive verb. To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations.
8. noun. an imitation or repetition

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

9. noun. 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. noun. the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves

    "she could hear echoes of her own footsteps"

    Synonyms: replication, reverberation

11. noun. a reflected television or radio or radar beam
12. noun. a reply that repeats what has just been said
13. noun. (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained
14. verb. to say again or imitate

    "followers echoing the cries of their leaders"

    Synonyms: repeat

15. verb. ring or echo with sound

    "the hall resounded with laughter"

    Synonyms: resound, reverberate, ring

16. verb. call to mind

    "His words echoed John F. Kennedy"

    Synonyms: recall

Synonyms

replication, reverberation, repeat, resound, reverberate, ring, recall

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in echo:

oche

Common word forms

echos, echoed, echoer, echoes, echoing, echoize, echoless

Words from these letters

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