Echo
Definition of Echo
Ech´o Pronunciation: ĕk´ô | n. | 1. | A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition of a sound. | | 2. | Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer. | | 3. | (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating, and causing the reverberation of them. | | 4. | (Gr. Myth.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth, who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing was left of her but her voice. | | 4. | (Whist, Contract Bridge) A signal, played in the same manner as a trump signal, made by a player who holds four or more trumps (or as played by some exactly three trumps) and whose partner has led trumps or signaled for trumps. | | v. t. | 1. | To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to reverberate. | | 2. | To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. | | v. i. | 1. | To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. |
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