echo
noun
Key Types & categories Parts & wholes Related & opposite
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- noun
- verb
- adjective
- adverb
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
the repetition of a sound resulting from reflection of the sound waves
she could hear echoes of her own footsteps
Types & categories
- reflectivity hypernym
- re-echo hyponym
Related & opposite
- reverberate derivation
- echo derivation
Sense 2 verb
to say again or imitate
followers echoing the cries of their leaders
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- echo derivation
Sense 3 verb
ring or echo with sound
the hall resounded with laughter
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- ring derivation
- plangency derivation
- echo derivation
- reverberant derivation
- resonant derivation
Sense 4 noun
a reply that repeats what has just been said
Types & categories
Related & opposite
- echo derivation
Sense 5 verb
call to mind
His words echoed John F. Kennedy
Types & categories
- resemble hypernym
Related & opposite
- echo derivation
Sense 6 noun
a reflected television or radio or radar beam
Types & categories
- reflectivity hypernym
Related & opposite
- electronics domain topic
Sense 7 noun
a close parallel of a feeling, idea, style, etc.
his contention contains more than an echo of Rousseau
Types & categories
- analogue hypernym
Sense 8 noun
an imitation or repetition
the flower arrangement was created as an echo of a client's still life
Types & categories
- imitation hypernym
Table view of this graph
| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | reverberate |
| 1 | derivation | Related & opposite | echo |
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | reflectivity |
| 1 | hyponym | Types & categories | re-echo |
| 2 | derivation | Related & opposite | echo |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | let out |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | recite |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | cuckoo |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | reecho |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | parrot |
| 2 | hyponym | Types & categories | regurgitate |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | ring |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | plangency |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | echo |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | reverberant |
| 3 | derivation | Related & opposite | resonant |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | sound |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | consonate |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | reecho |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | reecho |
| 3 | hyponym | Types & categories | bong |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | echo |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | reply |
| 4 | hyponym | Types & categories | echolalia |
| 5 | derivation | Related & opposite | echo |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | resemble |
| 6 | domain topic | Related & opposite | electronics |
| 6 | hypernym | Types & categories | reflectivity |
| 7 | hypernym | Types & categories | analogue |
| 8 | hypernym | Types & categories | imitation |