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echo

Pronunciation: /ˈɛk.əʊ/

The English word “echo” has 17 meanings listed here.

noun

  1. A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
  2. An utterance repeating what has just been said.
  3. A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
  4. Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
  5. Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
  6. An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
  7. The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
  8. An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
  9. 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 signalled for trumps.
  10. A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
  11. An antisemitic punctuation symbol or marking, ((( ))), placed around a name or phrase to indicate the person is Jewish or the entity is controlled by Jewish people; or repurposed or reclaimed to proudly declare one's Jewishness or solidarity with Jews.

verb

  1. Of a sound or sound waves: to reflect off a surface and return; to reverberate or resound.
  2. Of a rumour, opinion, etc.: to spread or reverberate.
  3. To reflect back (a sound).
  4. To repeat (another’s speech, opinion, etc.).
  5. To repeat its input as input to some other device or system.
  6. To give the echo signal, informing one's partner about cards one holds.

Etymology

From Middle English eccho, ecco, echo, ekko, from Medieval Latin ēccō, from Latin ēchō, from Ancient Greek ἠχώ (ēkhṓ), from ἠχή (ēkhḗ, “sound”). Possibly from the same Proto-Indo-European root as sough.

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