Echoes

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Echo \Ech"o\ ([e^]k"[-o]), n.; pl. {Echoes} ([e^]k"[=o]z). [L.
     echo, Gr. 'hchw` echo, sound, akin to 'hchh`, 'h^chos, sound,
     noise; cf. Skr. v[=a][,c] to sound, bellow; perh. akin to E.
     voice: cf. F. ['e]cho.]
     1. A sound reflected from an opposing surface and repeated to
        the ear of a listener; repercussion of sound; repetition


        of a sound.
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              The babbling echo mocks the hounds.   --Shak.
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              The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. --Pope.
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     2. Fig.: Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
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              Fame is the echo of actions, resounding them.
                                                    --Fuller.
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              Many kind, and sincere speeches found an echo in his
              heart.                                --R. L.
                                                    Stevenson.
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     3.
        (a) (Myth. & Poetic) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as
            repeating, and causing the reverberation of them.
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                  Sweet Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st unseen
                  Within thy airy shell.            --Milton.
        (b) (Gr. Myth.) A nymph, the daughter of Air and Earth,
            who, for love of Narcissus, pined away until nothing
            was left of her but her voice.
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                  Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo
                  To give me answer from her mossy couch.
                                                    --Milton.
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     4. (Whist, Contract Bridge)
        (a) 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 signaled for trumps.
        (b) A signal showing the number held of a plain suit when
            a high card in that suit is led by one's partner.
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     {Echo organ} (Mus.), a set organ pipes inclosed in a box so
        as to produce a soft, distant effect; -- generally
        superseded by the swell.
  
     {Echo stop} (Mus.), a stop upon a harpsichord contrived for
        producing the soft effect of distant sound.
  
     {To applaud to the echo}, to give loud and continuous
        applause. --M. Arnold.
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              I would applaud thee to the very echo,
              That should applaud again.            --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Echo \Ech"o\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Echoed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Echoing}. -- 3d pers. sing. pres. {Echoes}.]
     1. To send back (a sound); to repeat in sound; to
        reverberate.
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              Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
                                                    --Dryden.
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              The wondrous sound
              Is echoed on forever.                 --Keble.
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     2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt.
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              They would have echoed the praises of the men whom
              they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper
              anonymous libels upon them.           --Macaulay.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  echoes
       See {echo}

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  echo
       n 1: the persistence of a sound after its source has stopped
            [syn: {reverberation}, {sound reflection}, {replication}]
       2: (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and
          pined away until only her voice remained
       3: a reply that repeats what has just been said
       v 1: to say again or imitate; "followers echoing the cries of
            their leaders" [syn: {repeat}]
       2: ring or echo with sound; "the hall resounded with laughter"
          [syn: {resound}, {ring}, {reverberate}]
       3: call to mind; "His words echoed John F. Kennedy" [syn: {recall}]
       [also: {echoes} (pl)]