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Definition: Echo |
EchoNoun1. The persistence of a sound after its source has stopped. 2. (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained. 3. A reply that repeats what has just been said. Verb1. To say again or imitate: "followers echoing the cries of their leaders.". 2. Ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter". 3. Call to mind: "His words echoed John F. Kennedy". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
"Echo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an echo", "a sound". |
Date "echo" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1050. (references) |
Etymology: Echo \Ech"o\, noun; plural Echoes. [Latin echo, Greek echo, sound, akin to sound, noise; compare to Sanskrit to sound, bellow; perhaps akin to English voice: compare to French ['e]cho.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Computing | Echo [FidoNet] n. A topic group on FidoNet's echomail system. Compare newsgroup. Source: Jargon File. |
19th Century Satire | The only thing that can cheat a woman out of the last word. Source: Foolish Dictionary, 1904. |
Aerospace | 1. A wave that has been reflected or otherwise returned with sufficient magnitude and delay to be detected as a wave distinct from that directly transmitted.2. In radar, a pulse of reflected radio frequency energy; the appearance on a radar indicator of the energy returned from a target. Also called blip. (references) |
Dream Interpretation | To dream of an echo, portends that distressful times are upon you. Your sickness may lose you your employment, and friends will desert you in time of need. Source: Ten Thousand Dreams Interpreted .... |
Post & Telecom | A sound wave reflected from a hard surface. Ghost signal. Source: European Union. (references) |
| In radar, the radio-frequency energy received after reflection from an object. Source: European Union. (references) | |
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Echo is:
- Echo - character in Greek mythology
- echo - natural phenomenon
- Echo sounding
- Forward echo
- Echo, Minnesota
- Echo Township, Minnesota
- Echo Township, Michigan
- Echo Lake, Washington
- The rock band Echo & the Bunnymen
- the letter E in the NATO phonetic alphabet.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Echo."
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In Greek mythology, Echo (Greek Ηχω) was an Oread who had the job of talking incessantly to Hera, the Queen of the Gods, so that her husband, Zeus, wouldn't get caught in his numerous affairs. According to some sources, Hera caught on to Echo's trick and cursed her to only be able say what others had just said--hence our modern word "echo".
Echo fell in love with a human named Narcissus but he loved only the image of himself, reflected in water. Echo pined away with love for him but Narcissus was unmoved. Gradually, Echo faded until nothing was left but her voice, repeating the last words of others. Narcissus turned into a daffodil.
Alternatively, Echo was a nymph who was a great singer and dancer and scorned the love of any man. This angered Pan, a lecherous god, and he instructed his followers to kill her. Echo was torn to pieces and spread all over earth. The goddess of the earth, Gaia, received the pieces of Echo, whose voice remains repeating the last words of others. In some versions, Echo and Pan first had one child: Iambe.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Echo (mythology)."
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In audio signal processing and acoustics, an echo is a reflection of sound, arriving at the listener some time after the direct sound. Typical examples are the echo produced by the bottom of a well, by a building, or in a room, by the walls. A true echo is a single reflection of the sound source. The time delay is the extra distance divided by the speed of sound.
If so many reflections arrive at a listener that he cannot distinguish between them, the proper term is reverberation.
An echo can be explained as a wave that has been reflected by a discontinuity in the propagation medium, and returns with sufficient magnitude and delay to be perceived.
The intensity of an echo is frequently measured in dB relative to the directly transmitted wave.
Echoes may be desirable (as in radar) or undesirable (as in telephone systems).
In computing, an echo is the printing or display of characters (a) as they are entered from an input device, (b) as instructions are executed, or (c) as retransmitted characters received from a remote terminal.
In computer graphics, an echo is the immediate notification of the current values provided by an input device to the operator at the display console.
Some information from Federal Standard 1037C and from MIL-STD-188. Echo is also:
- The letter E in the NATO phonetic alphabet
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Echo (phenomenon)."
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Echo is a city located in Yellow Medicine County, Minnesota. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 278.Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²). 2.6 km² (1.0 mi²) of it is land and none of it is covered by water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 278 people, 119 households, and 69 families residing in the city. The population density is 105.2/km² (273.1/mi²). There are 136 housing units at an average density of 51.5/km² (133.6/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 97.48% White, 0.00% African American, 1.08% Native American, 0.00% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 0.00% from other races, and 1.44% from two or more races. 1.08% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 119 households out of which 28.6% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 49.6% are married couples living together, 4.2% have a female householder with no husband present, and 41.2% are non-families. 37.8% of all households are made up of individuals and 26.1% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.34 and the average family size is 3.16. In the city the population is spread out with 27.0% under the age of 18, 6.5% from 18 to 24, 24.1% from 25 to 44, 19.8% from 45 to 64, and 22.7% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 40 years. For every 100 females there are 91.7 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 95.2 males. The median income for a household in the city is $27,656, and the median income for a family is $35,500. Males have a median income of $25,714 versus $20,385 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,275. 10.6% of the population and 6.3% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 13.2% are under the age of 18 and 5.6% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Echo, Minnesota."
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Echo is a city located in Umatilla County, Oregon. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 650.Geography
Echo is located at 45°44'28" North, 119°11'41" West (45.741196, -119.194632)1. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 1.6 km² (0.6 mi²). 1.6 km² (0.6 mi²) of it is land and none of the area is covered with water.Demographics
As of the census of 2000, there are 650 people, 240 households, and 168 families residing in the city. The population density is 418.3/km² (1,091.3/mi²). There are 252 housing units at an average density of 162.2/km² (423.1/mi²). The racial makeup of the city is 89.38% White, 0.15% African American, 0.46% Native American, 0.31% Asian, 0.00% Pacific Islander, 6.92% from other races, and 2.77% from two or more races. 8.15% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race. There are 240 households out of which 36.7% have children under the age of 18 living with them, 51.7% are married couples living together, 12.9% have a female householder with no husband present, and 30.0% are non-families. 22.9% of all households are made up of individuals and 8.8% have someone living alone who is 65 years of age or older. The average household size is 2.68 and the average family size is 3.18. In the city the population is spread out with 29.1% under the age of 18, 9.5% from 18 to 24, 26.2% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 12.5% who are 65 years of age or older. The median age is 35 years. For every 100 females there are 99.4 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there are 91.3 males. The median income for a household in the city is $34,464, and the median income for a family is $35,833. Males have a median income of $31,125 versus $20,250 for females. The per capita income for the city is $15,879. 15.4% of the population and 8.9% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total people living in poverty, 24.2% are under the age of 18 and 11.8% are 65 or older.Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Echo, Oregon."
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Operation Echo was the codename given by the Canadian military for its activities in Bosnia in support of the NATO operation Joint Force in 1998.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Operation Echo."
| The following table is compiled from various sources, across various languages. When English abbreviations or acronyms come from a non-English source, this is noted. | |||
| Entry | Source | Expression | Field |
ECHO | English | Extra-ordinary Computer Human Operation | N/A |
| ECHO Virus | English | Enteric Cytopathogenic Human Orphan Virus | Medicine |
| EC | English | Echo check | Computing |
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |||
Synonyms: EchoSynonyms: reverberation (n), sound reflection (n), recall (v), repeat (v), resound (v), reverberate (v), ring (v). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Answer | Verb: answer, respond, reply, rebut, retort, rejoin; give for answer, return for answer; acknowledge, echo. |
Noun: answer, response, reply, replication, riposte, rejoinder, surrejoinder, rebutter, surrebutter, retort, repartee; rescript, rescription; antiphon, antiphony; acknowledgment; password; echo; counter statement. | |
Approbation | Commend, belaud, praise, laud, compliment; pay a tribute, bepraise; clap the hands; applaud, cheer, acclamate, encore; panegyrize, eulogize, cry up, proner, puff; extol, extol to the skies; magnify, glorify, exalt, swell, make much of; flatter; bless, give a blessing to; have a good word for, say a good word for; speak well of, speak highly of, speak in high terms of; sing the praises of, sound the praises of, chaunt the praises of; resound the praises of; sing praises to; cheer to the echo, applaud to the echo, applaud to the very echo, cheer to the very echo. |
Assent | Verb: assent; give assent, yield assent, nod assent; acquiesce; agree; receive, accept, accede, accord, concur, lend oneself to, consent, coincide, reciprocate, go with; be at one with; Adjective: go along with, chime in with, strike in with, close in with; echo, enter into one's views, agree in opinion; vote, give one's voice for; recognize; subscribe to, conform to, defer to; say yes to, say ditto, amen to, say aye to. |
Copy | Duplicate, reproduction; cast, tracing; reflex, reflexion, reflection; shadow, echo. |
Imitation | Verb: imitate, copy, mirror, reflect, reproduce, repeat; do like, echo, reecho, catch; transcribe; match, parallel. |
Imitator, echo, cuckoo, parrot, ape, monkey, mocking bird, mime; copyist, copycat; plagiarist, pirate. | |
Recoil | Verb: recoil, react; spring back, fly back, bounce back, bound back; rebound, reverberate, repercuss, recalcitrate; echo, ricochet. |
Repetition | Verb: repeat, iterate, reiterate, reproduce, echo, reecho, drum, harp upon, battologize, hammer, redouble. |
Chimes, repetend, echo, ritornello, burden of a song, refrain; rehearsal; rechauffe, rifacimento, recapitulation. | |
World | Phrase: die Weltgeschichte ist das Weltergesicht; "earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God"; "green calm below, blue quietness above"; "hanging in a golden chain this pendant World"; "nothing in nature is unbeautiful"; "silently as a dream the fabric rose"; "some touch of nature's genial glow"; "this majestical roof fretted with golden fire"; "through knowledge we behold the World's creation". |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | Echo station 3-T-8, we have spotted Imperial walkers (Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back; writing credit: George Lucas; Leigh Brackett) Mr. Echo, go to hell (Robinson Crusoe on Mars; writing credit: Daniel Defoe; John C. Higgins) There an echo in here (The Insider; writing credit: Eric Roth) So what difference does it make, whether it's 20 minutes or 20 years, since neither amounts to the faintest echo of the tiniest whisper in the thunder of time (The Outer Limits; writing credit: Harlan Ellison) hello hello Echo echo echo Pinch hitting for Pedro Borbon Manny Mota Mota Mota (Airplane!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; David Zucker) | |
Lyrics | And the forests will echo with laughter (Stairway to heaven; performing artist: Led Zeppelin) Feeling my love, echo in my mind, in my mind, yeah (Do You Know (What It Takes); performing artist: Robyn) Hear the echo of the shots that ring (12 Year Old With A Gun; performing artist: The Jets) Windows echo your reflection (Pictures Of Matchstick Men; performing artist: The Status Quo) | |
Clever | Life is an echo. What you send out, you get back; what you give, you get. (references; author: unknown) | |
Movie/TV Titles | Triple Echo (1973) An Echo of Theresa (1973) Echo (1967) The Girl and the Echo (1965) Echo (1964) | |
Song Titles | Echo (performing artist: The Emotions) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | Thumbnail | Description & Credit |
![]() | Echo Satellite. Credit: NASA. | ![]() | Echo II. Credit: NASA. |
![]() | Project Cloudline Echo. Credit: Flying With NOAA. | ![]() | A view of Mussachuck Creek, the creek runs east to west. Echo Lake runs north of the creek. Credit: NOAA Restoration Center. |
![]() | Hook Echo - often a precursor of tornadic activity. Credit: National Severe Storms Laboratory (NSSL). | ![]() | In: "The Meteor Expedition," by F. Spiess, German Atlantic Expedition 1925-1927. Taking sun sights on the METEOR; exercise time for the crew; echo sounding with ear-phones. Plate 32. Library Call Number C/La S755. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. |
![]() | Figure 67. British Admiralty echo sounder, model MS X. In the 1930's the British Admiralty designed a magnetostrictive ultrasonic sounding device which subsequently led to the manufacture of magnetostrictive sounding systems by Hughes and Son Ltd. Credit: Sailing for Science - the NOAA Fleet Then and Now. | ![]() | Chelsea Cochrane, NRCS, discusses the landscaping plan for a community garden in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, CA. [Slide 97CS2983]. Credit: Bob Nichols. |
![]() | Cheryl Whalen, NRCS, discusses the landscaping plan for a community garden in the Echo Park area of Los Angeles, CA. Alice Young, NRCS, and Al Renmer are in the background. [Slide 97CS2984]. Credit: Bob Nichols. | ![]() | Glen Echo Park. Credit: NPS. |
Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits. | |||
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| "Echo bay backroads" by Jeff L Commentary: "This was shot probably around 1991-2 off a dirt road in behind echo bay, ontario somewhere. Lots of pretty colours contrasting with the evergreens." |
Source: photographs selected by the editor, with permission from the photographers. |
| Play | Caption | Play | Caption |
| A mandolin playing with lots of reverb and an echo device. | Drum with echo. | ||
| A distorted chord played on an electric guitar using an echo effect. . | |||
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Author | Quotation |
Anonymous Miscellaneous | I came to the place of my birth, and cried, "The friends of my youth, where are they?" And echo answered, "Where are they?" |
Durivage | If you tell a woman she is beautiful, whisper it softly; for if the devil hears it he'll echo it many times. |
Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton | Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. |
Longinus | Sublimity is the echo of a noble mind. |
Oliver Wendell Holmes | The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer. |
Otto Von Bismarck | An appeal to fear never finds an echo in German hearts. |
William Shakespeare | He took the bride about the neck and kissed her lips with such a clamorous smack that at the parting all the church did echo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Author | Date | Quotation |
Communist Manifesto | 1848 | In this way arose Feudal Socialism: half lamentation, half lampoon; half echo of the past, half menace of the future; at times, by its bitter, witty and incisive criticism, striking the bourgeoisie to the very heart's core; but always ludicrous in its effect, through total incapacity to comprehend the march of modern history. (reference) |
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| Title | Author | Quote |
Only a Woman's Hair | Carroll, Lewis | Nay! In those words there rings from other years The echo of a long low cry, Where a proud spirit wrestles with its tears In loneliest agony |
Les Miserables | Hugo, Victor | The four cannon made dreary echo to one another |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | Nothing moved him or spoke to him from the real world unless he heard in it an echo of the infuriated cries within him. |
Walden | Thoreau, Henry David | The echo is, to some extent, an original sound, and therein is the magic and charm of it. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | The echo patterns of the sound waves form an image of the prostate gland on a display screen. (references) | |
If you have recurrent infections, your doctor also may recommend an ultrasound exam, which gives pictures from the echo patterns of soundwaves bounced back from internal organs. (references) | ||
Civil Liberties | Central African Republic | Echo de CentrAfrique, a private daily newspaper, is close to the ruling party. (references) |
Lexicography | Devil's Dictionary | APPLAUSE, n. The echo of a platitude. |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Speaker | Phrase(s) |
Rush Limbaugh | Folks, the Limbaugh Echo Syndrome is becoming more and more common out there, and this time the Reverend Al Sharpton is the man that we cite for echoing El Rushbo. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| "Echo" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 44.44% of the time. "Echo" is used about 1,490 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 44.44% | 662 | 9,909 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.71% | 502 | 12,008 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 13.07% | 195 | 21,939 |
| Lexical Verb (infinitive) | 8.78% | 131 | 27,855 |
| Total | 100.00% | 1,490 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following table summarizes the usage of "echo" based on a population census conducted in the United States. Ranks and frequencies are based on all names reported and classified. |
| Name | Usage/Gender | Usage per 100 million Persons | Rank in USA |
| Echo | First name Female | 2,000 | 2,995 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits. | |||
| "Echo" is a name that signifies or is derived from: "an echo", "a sound". | |||
| The following table summarizes names derived from the word "echo". | |||
| Name | Gender | Language | Meaning |
| Echo | Female | Greek Mythology | An echo |
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| Country | Name | Country | Name |
| Canada | Echo Bay Mines Limited | Japan | Echo Trading Co., Ltd. |
| USA | Echo Springs Water Company Inc. | ||
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Source: compiled by the editor from Icon Group International, Inc.
1. Echo, MN (city, FIPS 17900) 2. Echo, OR (city, FIPS 22200) |
Expressions using "echo": applaud to the echo ♦ applaud to the very echo ♦ cheer to the echo ♦ cheer to the very echo ♦ coherent echo ♦ echo back ♦ echo cancellation ♦ echo chamber ♦ echo image ♦ Echo Lake ♦ echo modulation ♦ Echo organ ♦ echo sounder ♦ echo sounding ♦ echo sounding machine ♦ Echo stop ♦ echo suppressor ♦ echo suppressor enabling ♦ echo suppressor equipped ♦ echo technique ♦ echo with ♦ ghost echo ♦ Glen Echo ♦ Glen Echo Park ♦ local echo ♦ outgoing half echo control device request indicator ♦ parasitic echo ♦ partial echo ♦ permanent echo ♦ radar echo ♦ re echo ♦ remote echo ♦ spurious echo ♦ Tautological echo ♦ To applaud to the echo ♦ to the echo ♦ wood echo. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "echo": echo-box, echo-cardiograph, echo-chamber, echo-clicks, echo-distorted, echo-doppler, echo-effects, echo-filled, echo-gnomics, echo-locating, echo-location, echo-machines, echo-planar, Echo-Planar Imaging, echo-producing, echo-sounder, echo-sounders, echo-sounding, Echo-sponsored, echo-suppressor, echo-ward. | |
Ending with "echo": Eco-echo, pre-echo, pulse-echo, re-echo, successor-echo, Tel-echo, world-echo. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day | Expression | Frequency per Day |
echo | 1,549 | indian echo cavern | 65 |
toyota echo | 575 | echo park | 64 |
echo johnson | 319 | echo hatchback | 59 |
echo and the bunnymen | 215 | college columbia echo | 59 |
echo chain saw | 213 | echo trimmer | 59 |
liverpool echo | 160 | echo 7 | 55 |
echo press | 128 | toyota echo used | 53 |
echo trimmers | 120 | glen echo park | 52 |
irish echo | 105 | stir of echo | 52 |
echo foot forty | 102 | 40 echo foot | 51 |
echo valley | 94 | echo hatchback toyota | 51 |
echo lawn equipment | 86 | echo mia | 49 |
echo power equipment | 84 | echo pink floyd | 49 |
echo magazine | 80 | bon echo park provincial | 49 |
echo lake | 80 | echo usa.com | 49 |
echo blower | 80 | echo link | 46 |
bon echo | 76 | dvd echo | 46 |
echo power tool | 70 | echo ely | 43 |
weed eater echo | 67 | echo sunderland | 42 |
glen echo | 66 | echo shoes | 42 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |||
| Language | Translations for "echo"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Afrikaans | eggo. (various references) | |
Albanian | jehonë (repercussion, reverberation). (various references) | |
Arabic | كرر (do again, duplicate, exalt, hammer out, iterate, rectify, redouble, reduplicate, refine, rehearse, reiterate, renew, repeat, say again), محاكاة (burlesque, copying, emulation, imitation, mimesis, mimicry, simulation), نتيجة (conclusion, consequence, effect, emanation, end, event, fruit, offshoot, offspring, outcome, payoff, precipitate, product, progeny, purpose, ramification, repercussion, result, score, sequel, termination, upshot, work), قلد (affect, ape, burlesque, copy, fake, follow, imitate, inaugurate, mime, mimic, mock, parrot, present, send up, sham, simulate, vest), تكرر (recur, repeat, repetition, run, sublimation), صدى (rebound, repercussion, resonance, reverberate, reverberation), المقلد (copyist, mimic, snob), المحاكي (mimic), الترديد, إستجابة (response, restraint), أثر (bias, count, effect, give rise to, hint, impress, influence, lead, mark, odor, odour, operate, prefer, repercussion, scent, sink, soupcon, streak, tag, tinge, tint, touch, trace, trail, trait, vestige, work), رجع الصوت, رجع الصدى (reecho, resonate, reverberate). (various references) | |
Basque | oihartzun. (various references) | |
Bulgarian | кънтя (resound, reverberate, ring), отклик (response), отглас (ablaut, answer, gradation, resonance, response), отзвук (answer, backwash, reflection, repercussion, response), звукоподражание, ехтя (clang, peal, ring), ехо (doubling effect, repercussion, reverberation), повтарям (geminate, go over, ingeminate, re echo, recrudesce, reduplicate, rehearse, renew, repeat, replay, reproduce, rerun, say over), подражател (ape, copy-cat, copyist, echo sounder, imitator), подражавам (copy, counterfeit, imitate, monkey). (various references) | |
Chinese | 答 (agree, answer, reply, respond, return, to answer), 反響 (reaction, repercussions), 回聲 , 回声 (Echoes). (various references) | |
Czech | echo, ozvìna (resonance, reverberation), ozvěna, ozývat se (resound, reverberate, roar), ohlas, odrážet (racket, reverberate), odezva (follow up, repercussion, response), bezmyšlenkovitì opakovat. (various references) | |
Danish | ekko (ghost). (various references) | |
Dutch | Echo (double image, echo image, ghost, ghost image, multiple image), weergalmen (resound), naklinken (resound), echoën. (various references) | |
Esperanto | Eĥo, eĥi, resono (resonance), resoni (resound), postsono (resonance), mokimiti (repeat parrot-like). (various references) | |
Faeroese | gella (peal, ring), bergmál, afturljóð. (various references) | |
Farsi | پژواک (Reflection), توف , طنین صدا, خنیدن , انعکاس صدا. (various references) | |
Finnish | kaiku (resonance). (various references) | |
French | écho (echo image, radio echo), résonner. (various references) | |
German | Echo (response), Wiederhall, widerhall (repercussion, resonance, response, reverberation). (various references) | |
Greek | ηχώ (blare, chime, clink, peal, resonance, resound, reverberate, ring, sound, ting), αντηχώ (clang, reecho, resonate, resound, reverberate), αντήχηση (reecho, resonance, reverberation). (various references) | |
Hawaiian | jehonë. (various references) | |
Hebrew | להדהד (re echo, resonate, resound, reverberate), הד, בת קול. (various references) | |
Hungarian | visszhang (response, reverberations). (various references) | |
Indonesian | eko, mengumandang (reverberate), kumandang (reverberation), bergema (lihat: gema), bahana (din, loud noise). (various references) | |
Italian | eco. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 響き (noise, reverberation, sound). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | おんきょう (acoustic, noise, sound), ざんきょう (reverberation), ひびき (noise, reverberation, sound), こだま (the spirit of a tree), やまびこ, エコー , はんきょう (anticommunist, influence, reaction, repercussion, reverberation). (various references) | |
Korean | 메아리 (Echoes). (various references) | |
Manx | mactulleyder (echo-sounder). (various references) | |
Norwegian | ekko. (various references) | |
Occitan | resson. (various references) | |
Papago | shashawk. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | echoay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | eco (paragraph, repercussion, replication, reverberation, ringing). (various references) | |
Romanian | ecou (replication), sunet (hoot, noise, note, peal, ringing, rustle, sound, tinkle, toll, toot), rezonanţã (resonance), rãsunet (response, sound), rãsuna (clash, peal, re echo, resound, sound, vibrate, whang), imitaţie (copy, counterfeit, forgery, imitation, pastiche, pinchbeck), imita (ape, copy, counterfeit, follow, forge, go after, imitate, mimic, parody, pattern after, simulate), avea ecou. (various references) | |
Russian | эхо (doubling effect, reverberation). (various references) | |
Scottish | mactalla , macalla. (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | odjeknuti (resound, sound), odjekivati (reecho, resonate, reverberate, sound), odjek (reecho, repercussion), jeka (blare, clang). (various references) | |
Shona | maun'ira. (various references) | |
Spanish | eco (re echo, replication, reverberation). (various references) | |
Swazi | kw-enánela. (various references) | |
Swedish | eko (reverberation), genljud (reverberation), genljuda (re echo, re-echo, resound, reverberate), genklang (approbation, sympathy), eka (punt, re echo, reecho, re-echo, resound, skiff). (various references) | |
Thai | เสียงสะท้อน, สะท้อน (mirror), ทำให้ก้อง, การซ้ำ (iterance). (various references) | |
Turkish | eko (replication), yansıtmak (externalize, mirror, picture, project, re echo, reflect, return, reverberate), yankılanmak (din, re echo, rebound, resound, reverberate, ring out again), yankı (rebound, reflection, reflexion, repercussion, repercussions, replication), taklit etmek (ape, copy, copycat, counterfeit, do an impression of smb., fake, follow suit, hit off, imitate, impersonate, mime, mimic, mock, simulate, take a leaf out of one's book, take an example by), taklit (affectation, bastard, bogus, counterfeit, fake, false, gold brick, hit off, imitated, imitation, imitative, impression, mimesis, mimic, mimicry, mock, mockery, pinchbeck, repetition, reproduction, sham, simulacrum, simulated, simulation, snide, take off), hatırlatmak (be evocative of, be redolent of, bring back, bring to mind, call to mind, conjure up, evoke, invoke, put smb. in mind of, recall, remind, remind of), aksetmek (mirror, reflect, reverberate), akis (converse, inversion, mirror image, reflection, reflex, reflexion, reverberation), ahenk (accord, accordance, agreement, cadence, chime, coherence, coherency, concert, concinnity, concordance, concurrence, congruence, congruity, consonance, euphony, harmony, rhythm, symmetry, symphony, tune, unison). (various references) | |
Turkmen | яaс. (various references) | |
Ukrainian | відголос (backwash), відлунюватися, відбитий звук, наслідувати (ape, copy, imitate), наслідування (copyism, emulation, imitation, mimicry, repetition, take off), луна (rebound, replication), повторювати звук. (various references) | |
Vietnamese | ảnh nổi (echo-image). (various references) | |
Welsh | atseinio (resound), atsain, adleisio (rebound, resound), adlef, adlais. (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | asson, cedson, dison, gerson, gersonitarum, imagine, imaginem, imagines, imagini, imaginis, imago, mnasonem, refero, resonantia, resonare, sonabit, sonabunt, sonans, sonantes, sonantibus, sonantis, sonarent, sonaverunt, sonet, sonitu, sonitum, sonitus, sonitusque, sono. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "echo": echocardiogram, echocardiograms, echocardiographer, echocardiographers, echocardiographic, echocardiographies, echocardiography, echoed, echoer, echoers, echoes, echoey, echogram, echograms, echoic, echoing, echoism, echoisms, echolalia, echolalias, echolalic, echoless, echolocation, echolocations, echos, echovirus, echoviruses. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "echo": outecho, reecho, subecho. (additional references) | |
Words containing "echo": anechoic, antechoir, antechoirs, catechol, catecholamine, catecholaminergic, catecholamines, catechols, outechoed, outechoes, outechoing, poechore, poechores, pyrocatechol, pyrocatechols, rechoose, rechooses, rechoosing, rechoreograph, rechoreographed, rechoreographing, rechoreographs, rechose, rechosen, reechoed, reechoes, reechoing, subechoes. (additional references) | |
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"Echo" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Achu, Bechio, Bechor, Bekhor, ceh, cehe, cehg, chho, cho, Decchip, Ebco, ec, ecch, ecchi, eccho, ecco, ech, eche, echoe, echol, echos, Echoy, Echr, echt, echy, ecko, ecmo, Ecob, ecoh, ecom, ecor, ecoy, Ecro, eehh, Efh, egh, eha, ehk, ehon, ehp, Eichhorn, Eickhof, Ekofo, ekor, ekow, eku, Elche, enh, enho, ephe, Esbo, esch, Esco, esh, Esha, etho, ethoxy, eto, eucmos, Exch, exh, exhi, eych, fecha, Gcho, hcha, Icoh, jeho, Kechak, lechon, Necho, Neycho, ocho, ochu, pechi, pecho, recho, scho, uch, Ucha. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "echo" (pronounced e"kō) |
| 3 | e" k ō | Deco, gecko. |
| 2 | -k ō | Arco, Banco, barranco, Bronco, bucko, Cisco, cocoa, disco, fiasco, fico, fresco, junco, loco, mako, Morocco, narco, pachinko, poco, psycho, Roscoe, stucco, taco, wacko, whacko. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-h-o" | |
-1 letter: hoe. | |
-2 letters: eh, he, ho, oe, oh. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-h-o" | |
+1 letter: boche, chemo, choke, chore, chose, echos, epoch, ocher, ochre. | |
+2 letters: boches, broche, cheapo, cheero, chegoe, chemos, chigoe, choice, choked, choker, chokes, chokey, choler, choose, chorea, chored, chores, chosen, choses, chouse, chowed, chowse, chrome, cloche, clothe, cohead, coheir, cohere, cohune, cometh, coshed, cosher, coshes, douche, echoed, echoer, echoes, echoey, echoic, epochs, hector, heroic, hocked, hocker, hockey, louche, ochers, ochery, ochone, ochrea, ochred, ochres, orache, ouched, ouches, reecho, rochet, rotche, rouche, schmoe, tocher, touche, troche. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. SCRABBLE® is a registered trademark. All intellectual property rights in and to the game are owned in the U.S.A and Canada by Hasbro Inc., and throughout the rest of the world by J.W. Spear & Sons Limited of Maidenhead, Berkshire, England, a subsidiary of Mattel Inc. Mattel and Spear are not affiliated with Hasbro. | |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Images: Photo Album 8. Images: Digital Art | 9. Sounds 10. Quotations: Familiar 11. Quotations: Historic 12. Quotations: Fiction | 13. Quotations: Non-fiction 14. Quotations: Spoken 15. Usage Frequency 16. Names: Frequency | 17. Names: Derived from 18. Names: Company Usage 19. Cities 20. Expressions | 21. Expressions: Internet 22. Translations: Modern 23. Translations: Ancient 24. Abbreviations | 25. Acronyms 26. Derivations 27. Rhymes 28. Anagrams | 29. Bibliography |
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