Echo

(ĕk'o), n.; pl. ĔCH'OES. [Lat. echo, from Gr. ἠχώ, same as ἠχή, ἦχος, sound, noise, especially a returned sound, or echo.]

1Sense 1. A sound reflected or reverberated to the ear; the repetition of a sound by reflection from any substance.

The woods shall answer, and the echo ring. Pope.

2Sense 2. (a.) (Myth. & Poet.) A wood or mountain nymph, regarded as repeating sounds, and causing the reverberation of them. (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.

Compelled me to awake the courteous Echo To give me answer from her mossy couch. Milton.

3Sense 3. (Arch.) A vault or arch so formed as to produce an echo. Brande.

[imp. & p. p. ECHOED; p. pr. & vb. n. ECHOING.]

1Sense 1. To reverberate or send back; to return. Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng. Dryden.

2Sense 2. To repeat with assent; to respond; to adopt. They would have echoed the praises of the men whom they envied, and then have sent to the newspaper anonymous libels upon them. Macaulay.