echo
noun
[ ˈɛkəʊ ]
• a sound or sounds caused by the reflection of sound waves from a surface back to the listener.
• "the walls threw back the echoes of his footsteps"
• a close parallel to an idea, feeling, or event.
• "his love for her found an echo in her own feelings"
Similar:
duplicate,
copy,
replica,
facsimile,
reproduction,
imitation,
exact/close likeness,
mirror image,
twin,
double,
clone,
match,
mate,
fellow,
counterpart,
parallel,
lookalike,
spitting image,
ringer,
dead ringer,
• a person who slavishly repeats the words or opinions of another.
• "Clarendon, whom they reckoned the faithful echo of their master's intentions"
• used in names of newspapers.
• "the South Wales Echo"
• a code word representing the letter E, used in radio communication.
• a play by a defender of a higher card in a suit followed by a lower one in a subsequent trick, used as a signal to request a further lead of that suit by their partner.
echo
verb
• (of a sound) be repeated or reverberate after the original sound has stopped.
• "their footsteps echoed on the metal catwalks"
• (of an object or event) be reminiscent of or have shared characteristics with.
• "a blue suit that echoed the colour of her eyes"
• send a copy of (an input signal or character) back to its source or to a screen for display.
• "for security reasons, the password will not be echoed to the screen"
• (of a defender) play a higher card followed by a lower one in the same suit, as a signal to request one's partner to lead that suit.
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French or Latin, from Greek ēkhō, related to ēkhē ‘a sound’.
