noun, verb
noun (plural echoes)
1 the reflecting of sound off a wall or inside an enclosed space so that a noise appears to be repeated; a sound that is reflected back in this way:
There was an echo on the line and I couldn't hear clearly. * The hills sent back a faint echo. * the echo of footsteps running down the corridor * 'So you love him, do you?' Magda's voice was a mocking echo of my own.
2 the fact of an idea, event, etc. being like another and reminding you of it; sth that reminds you of sth else:
Yesterday's crash has grim echoes of previous disasters.
3 an opinion or attitude that agrees with or repeats one already expressed or thought:
His words were an echo of what she had heard many times before. * The speech found an echo in the hearts of many of the audience (= they agreed with it).
verb (echoes, echoing, echoed, echoed)
1 [V] if a sound echoes, it bounces off a wall, the side of a mountain, etc. so that you can hear it again:
Her footsteps echoed in the empty room. * The gunshot echoed through the forest.
2 ~ (to / with sth)
