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ECH'O, n. L. echo Gr.sound, to sound.

1. A sound reflected or reverberated from a solid body sound returned repercussion of sound as an echo from a distant hill.

The sound must seem an echo to the sense.

2. In fabulous history, a nymph, the daughter of the Air and Tellus, who pined into a sound, for love of Narcissus.
3. In architecture, a vault or arch for redoubling sounds.

ECH'O, To resound to reflect sound.

The hall echoed with acclamations.

1. To be sounded back as echoing noise.

ECH'O, To reverberate or send back sound to return what has been uttered.

Those peals are echoed by the Trojan throng.

Bibliography Information
Entry for 'Echo'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​e/echo.html.
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