echo

ech|o1 [ `ekou ] verb **

1. ) intransitive if a noise echoes, it is repeated because the sound hits a surface and returns:

echo around/through: Her question echoed around the room.

echo across: The howl of a coyote echoed across the canyon.

a ) if a building, space, or room echoes, noises are repeated there because it is large and empty:

She led him along deserted echoing corridors.

b ) echo with if a place echoes with a particular sound, it is filled with that sound:

The theater echoed with laughter.

c ) echo in your mind/head if something that you have heard echoes in your mind, you seem to keep hearing it

2. ) transitive to say the same words that someone else has said

a ) to express the ideas or feelings that someone else has expressed:

Her feelings are echoed by other parents whose kids have left home.

Blake echoed the views of many players.

3. ) transitive to repeat a quality or situation:

The Victorian theme is echoed in the furnishings.

This pattern of increased sales was echoed across Europe.

ech|o2 [ `ekou ] (plural ech|oes) noun count *

1. ) a noise that is repeated because the sound hits a surface and returns:

the echo of footsteps in the alley

2. ) an idea or phrase that is like one that has been expressed before:

His argument contains clear echoes of 1980s free-market philosophy.

a ) something that is very like a thing that happened or was produced before:

the violence of the past and its recent echoes

b ) find an echo (in) if an idea finds an echo in a group or country, people there agree with it