transcription, транскрипция: [ ekoʊ ]
( echoes, echoing, echoed)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
An echo is a sound which is caused by a noise being reflected off a surface such as a wall.
He heard nothing but the echoes of his own voice.
N-COUNT : oft N of n
2.
If a sound echoes , it is reflected off a surface and can be heard again after the original sound has stopped.
His feet echoed on the bare board floor...
The bang came suddenly, echoing across the buildings, shattering glass.
= reverberate
VERB : V , V prep / adv
3.
In a place that echoes , a sound is reflected off a surface, and is repeated after the original sound has stopped.
The room echoed...
The corridor echoed with the barking of a dozen dogs.
...the bare stone floors and the echoing hall.
VERB : V , V with/in n , V-ing
4.
If you echo someone’s words, you repeat them or express agreement with their attitude or opinion.
Their views often echo each other...
VERB : V n
5.
A detail or feature which reminds you of something else can be referred to as an echo .
The accident has echoes of past disasters.
N-COUNT : usu N of n
6.
If one thing echoes another, the first is a copy of a particular detail or feature of the other.
Pinks and beiges were chosen to echo the colours of the ceiling.
= repeat
VERB : V n
7.
If something echoes , it continues to be discussed and remains important or influential in a particular situation or among a particular group of people.
The old fable continues to echo down the centuries.
VERB : V prep