echoes

ech-oes · noun

imported

Definitions

noun

  1. 1.

    Plural of echo; multiple reflected sounds.

  2. 2.

    Repetitions or imitations of ideas, styles, or events.

  3. 3.

    Third person singular of echo; reflects sound or repeats.

Related words

See also: echo, echoing, reverberate
Synonyms: reflections, reverberations

Etymology

From Latin echo, from Greek ēkhō meaning "sound, echo." The plural follows the English pattern of adding -es to words ending in -o.