echo
/ˈɛk.oʊ/ noun C2- A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.
- An utterance repeating what has just been said.
- A device in verse in which a line ends with a word which recalls the sound of the last word of the preceding line.
- Sympathetic recognition; response; answer.
- Something that reflects or hearkens back to an earlier thing.
- An insignificant indirect result; a ripple.
- The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.
- An individual discussion forum using the echomail system.
Plural echoes
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It was then he heard a voice exclaim “Valentine is dead!” and another voice which, like an echo repeated:
He carved and ate and praised with delighted alacrity; and every dish was commended first by him, and then by Sir William, who was now enough recovered to echo whatever his son-in-law said, in a manner which Elizabeth wondered Lady Catherine could bear.
The next minute Franz heard himself called by Albert, who made the lofty building re-echo with the sound of his friend’s name.
Madame de Villefort merely cried, “Be still, Edward!” She then added, “This young madcap is, however, very nearly right, and merely re-echoes what he has heard me say with pain a hundred times; for Mademoiselle de Villefort is, in spite of all we can do to rouse her, of a melancholy disposition and taciturn habit, which frequently injure the effect of her beauty.
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