ECH'O, n. [L. echo; Gr.sound, to sound.] 1. A sound reflected or reverberated from a solid body; sound returned; repercussion of sound; as an echo from a distant hill.The sound must seem an echo to the sense.2. In fabulous history, a nymph, the daughter of the Air and Tellus, who pined into a sound, for love of Narcissus.3. In architecture, a vault or arch for redoubling sounds.ECH'O, v.i. To resound; to reflect sound. The hall echoed with acclamations.1. To be sounded back; as echoing noise.ECH'O, v.t. To reverberate or send back sound; to return what has been uttered. Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.
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