echo

Noun

• an imitation or repetition
  • the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life
    

• a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
  • his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau
    
  • Napoleon III was an echo of the mighty Emperor but an infinitely better man
    

• a reflected television or radio or radar beam

• a reply that repeats what has just been said

• (Greek mythology) a nymph who was spurned by Narcissus and pined away until only her voice remained

• the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
  • she could hear echoes of her own footsteps
    

Verb

• call to mind
  • His words echoed John F. Kennedy
    

• ring or echo with sound
  • the hall resounded with laughter
    

• to say again or imitate
  • followers echoing the cries of their leaders
    

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Echo , reverberation , sound reflection , replication , recall , resound , ring , reverberate , repeat