echo

verb

/ˈekəʊ/

Verb Forms

present simple I / you / we / they echo	/ˈekəʊ/ /ˈekəʊ/
he / she / it echoes	/ˈekəʊz/ /ˈekəʊz/
past simple echoed	/ˈekəʊd/ /ˈekəʊd/
past participle echoed	/ˈekəʊd/ /ˈekəʊd/
-ing form echoing	/ˈekəʊɪŋ/ /ˈekəʊɪŋ/

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[intransitive] if a sound echoes, it is reflected off a wall, the side of a mountain, etc. so that you can hear it again synonym reverberate
- Her footsteps echoed in the empty room.
- The gunshot echoed through the forest.
Extra Examples
- His voice echoed around the room.
- The call echoed off the walls of the cave.
- Their voices echoed back across the water.
- The protest seemed to echo across the room.
- Her screams still echoed in his ears.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- faintly
- slightly
- softly
- …
verb + echo
- seem to
preposition
- across
- around
- round
- …
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[intransitive, transitive] to send back and repeat a sound; to be full of a sound synonym reverberate
- The whole house echoed.
- echo to/with something The street echoed with the cries of children.
- echo something (back) The valley echoed back his voice.
- The great hall echoed with laughter.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- faintly
- slightly
- softly
- …
verb + echo
- seem to
preposition
- across
- around
- round
- …
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[transitive] echo something to repeat an idea or opinion because you agree with it
- ‘More police, that’s what we need,’ he said, echoing his father’s views on the subject.
- This is a view echoed by many on the right of the party.
Extra Examples
- They had ideas which seem to echo our own.
- an opinion that is widely echoed in the tabloid press
- In his statement, the minister merely echoed the views of the chief police officer.
- Many others echoed her opinion that a change in the law was necessary.
Topics Opinion and argumentc1
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adverb
- exactly
- widely
- clearly
- …
verb + echo
- seem to
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[transitive] + speech | echo something to repeat what somebody else has just said, especially because you find it surprising
- ‘He's gone!’ Viv echoed.

echo

noun

/ˈekəʊ/

(plural echoes)

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the reflecting of sound off a wall or inside a particular space so that a noise appears to be repeated; a sound that is reflected back in this way
- There was an echo on the phone 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.
Extra Examples
- An echo came back from the walls of the building.
- The bat compares the sound of its cry with the sound of the returning echo.
- The echo slowly died away.
- The echoes reverberated through the auditorium.
- Their footsteps on the bare boards sent out hollow echoes.
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- distant
- faint
- clear
- …
verb + echo
- hear
- listen for
- listen to
- …
echo + verb
- bounce back
- bounce off something
- rebound
- …
preposition
- echo from
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the fact of an idea, event, etc. being like another and reminding you of it; something that reminds you of something else
- Yesterday's crash has grim echoes of previous disasters.
Extra Examples
- The story has echoes of Alice in Wonderland.
- There are clear echoes of Elvis Presley in his vocal style.
- ghostly echoes of Virginia's past
Oxford Collocations Dictionary
adjective
- distant
- faint
- clear
- …
verb + echo
- hear
- listen for
- listen to
- …
echo + verb
- bounce back
- bounce off something
- rebound
- …
preposition
- echo from
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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).
Topics Opinion and argumentc2

Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French or Latin, from Greek ēkhō, related to ēkhē ‘a sound’.