echoingn.
/ˈɛkəʊɪŋ/ The action of echo v., literal and figurative. poetic occasionally in plural.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [noun] > reverberation or echo
echo1340
repercussion1554
rebound1567
reverberation1569
reverberating1576
answer1609
re-echoing1611
re-echo1613
replicationa1616
back-echo1626
echoinga1649
reboation1648
redounda1665
aftersound1807
verberation1825
reverb1875
anacampsis1879
liveness1931
post-echo1956
a1649 W. Drummond Irene in Wks. (1711) 164 The Alarms of Trumpets and Drums are not heard..save by the ecchoing of the perplexed Continent.
1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 4 Some feeble echoing of thine earlier lay.
1850 E. B. Browning Poems (new ed.) II. 263 All echoings from out the hills.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
echoingadj.
/ˈɛkəʊɪŋ/ 1. Of places or material objects: That reverberates sounds; characterized by or resounding with echoes.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing > of places
echoing1667
echoy1906
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ix. 1107 A Pillard shade High overarch't, and echoing Walks between. View more context for this quotation
1685 R. Boyle Ess. Effects of Motion v. 65 The better sort of our Echoing places.
1829 R. Southey All for Love vii. 78 The echoing ground repeated the sound.
1842 H. W. Longfellow Slave in Dismal Swamp v Wild birds filled the echoing air with songs.
2. Of sounds or sound-producing agencies: That causes echoes. literal and figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adjective] > reverberating or echoing
rebounding1555
rolling1575
repercussive1604
doubling1605
reverberate1608
reparable echo1616
revoicing1631
reverberating1632
rewording1657
re-echoing1668
repeating1685
phonocamptic1694
echoing1702
anacamptic1706
anacamptical1706
reactive1712
rebellowing1712
redoubling1717
repulsive1744
reverberative1807
reverbering1822
reboant1830
echoy1841
reverberant1847
reboantic1853
verberant1864
1702 N. Rowe Ambitious Step-mother (ed. 2) iv. iii. 1958 This way the Ecchoing Accents seem to come.
1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 603 My echoing griefs the starry vault invade.
1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited vi. 111 The echoing bugle sounded through the streets of Brussels.
1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiv. 243 His countrymen forsook..Parnassus, on which they had once walked with echoing steps.
3. That gives or constitutes an expected response.
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the mind > attention and judgement > answer > [adjective] > giving an answer > as expected
responsal1570
echoinga1764
responsive1771
antiphonic1840
a1764 R. Lloyd Actor in Wks. (1774) I. 13 Equipoised he stands Till praise dismiss him with her echoing hands.
1862 ‘Cavendish’ Princ. Whist (1879) 268 Here your partner cannot tell whether your card is an original or an echoing one.
Derivatives
ˈechoingly adv.
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > resonance or sonority > [adverb] > reverberating or echoing
anacamptically1706
echoingly1854
reverberantly1882
1854 Chambers's Jrnl. 1 395 The first chords..wandered echoingly round the church.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2019).
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