Echo | Mean of echo in English Dictionary

/ˈɛkoʊ/

• Noun
• a sound that is a copy of another sound and that is produced when sound waves bounce off a surface (such as a wall)
1. We shouted into the canyon and listened to the echo of our voices.
2. the echo of footsteps in the hall
3. faint echoes
• something (such as a feature or quality) that repeats or resembles something else
1. His work contains echoes of older and greater poets.
2. The book's title is an echo of a line from an old folk song.
• something that is similar to something that happened or existed before
1. The crime is a chilling echo of the murders that shocked the city two years ago.
• Verb

• to be filled with sounds and especially with echoes
1. The stadium echoed [=resounded] with cheers.
• to fill a space, area, etc., with sounds and especially with echoes
1. The music echoed through the church.
2. Laughter echoed across the lake.
3. Their voices echoed in/along the hall.
4. His words echoed in my head/ears. [=I kept thinking about what he had said]
• to repeat (what someone else has said or written)
1. His warnings are echoed by many other experts in the field.
2. “It's in Rome.” “In Rome?” she echoed.
3. Others have echoed her criticisms.
• to have a feature or quality that repeats or resembles (something else)
1. The book's title echoes a line from an old folk song.
2. The color of the sofa is echoed in the painting above it. = The painting echoes the color of the sofa. [=the color of the painting is like the color of the sofa]
• to be similar to something that happened or existed before
1. The crime echoes last year's shocking murders.