Echoing

4 definitions found

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

  echoing \echoing\ adj.
     Reflecting sounds so as to create multiple echoes; as, a
     hotel with echoing halls.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  echoing
       adj : (of sounds) repeating by reflection; "a hotel with echoing
             halls" [syn: {echoing(a)}, {reechoing}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  44 Moby Thesaurus words for "echoing":
     answering, antiphonal, battological, booming, confutative,
     duplicative, echoic, growling, imitative, iterative, lingering,
     parrotlike, persistent, reboant, rebounding, recapitulative,
     redundant, reduplicative, reechoing, refutative, reiterant,
     reiterative, rejoining, repeating, repercussive, repetitional,
     repetitionary, repetitious, repetitive, replying, resounding,
     respondent, responding, responsive, returning, reverberant,
     reverberating, reverberatory, rumbling, sounding, tautological,
     tautologous, thundering, undamped