n.
(pl. echoes)
- a sound caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.
▸a reflected radio or radar beam.
▸Linguistics the repetition of one speaker's utterance by another.
- something suggestive of or parallel to something else.
- Bridge a play by a defender of a higher card in a suit followed by a lower one in a subsequent trick, used as a signal to request a further lead of that suit by their partner.
- a code word representing the letter E, used in radio communication.
v.
(echoes, echoing, echoed)
- (of a sound) reverberate or be repeated after the original sound has stopped.
▸repeat (someone's words or opinions).
- be suggestive of or parallel to:
a blue suit that echoed the colour of her eyes.
Derivative
- echoer n.
- echoey adj.
- echoless adj.
Etymology
ME: from OFr. or L., from Gk ēkhō, rel. to ēkhē ‘a sound’.