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Meaning Of Echo

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



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