- echo
- {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} nounADJECTIVE▪ distant, faint▪ clear, distinct, loud, strong (often figurative)▪
There are clear echoes of Elvis Presley in his vocal style.
▪ hollow▪ eerie, ghostly▪The initial reports had an eerie echo of the attacks two weeks earlier.
▪ghostly echoes of Virginia's past
▪ returning▪The bat compares the sound of its cry with the sound of the returning echo.
VERB + ECHO▪ hear, listen for, listen to▪We could just hear a faint echo.
▪ make, produce, send back, send out▪Their footsteps on the bare boards sent out hollow echoes.
▪ contain, have (both figurative)▪The story has echoes of Alice in Wonderland.
▪ find (figurative)▪The political upheavals find an echo in the art of the time.
ECHO + VERB▪ bounce back, bounce off sth, rebound, reverberate▪The echoes reverberated through the auditorium.
▪ come back, return▪An echo came back from the walls of the building.
▪ die, die away▪The echo slowly died away.
PREPOSITION▪ echo from▪{{Roman}}II.{{/Roman}}the echo from a brick wall
verb1 come back as an echoADVERB▪ faintly, slightly, softly▪ loudly▪ eerily, strangely▪ ominously▪ hollowly▪The sound echoed hollowly through the tall empty house.
▪ still▪ back▪Their voices echoed back across the water.
VERB + ECHO▪ seem toPREPOSITION▪ across▪The protest seemed to echo across the room.
▪ around, round (esp. BrE)▪His voice echoed around the room.
▪ down▪Her footsteps echoed down the corridor.
▪ in▪Her screams still echoed in his ears.
▪ off▪The call echoed off the walls of the cave.
▪ through▪Laughter echoed through the house.
▪ with▪The great hall echoed with laughter.
2 repeat/agree with sb/sthADVERB▪ exactly▪ widely▪an opinion that is widely echoed in the tabloid press
▪ clearly▪ merely, only, simply▪In his statement, the police chief merely echoed the views of his deputy.
▪ incredulously▪‘He's gone!’ Viv echoed incredulously.
VERB + ECHO▪ seem to▪Their ideas seem to echo our own.
Collocations dictionary. 2013.
