echo noun [ C ] (SOUND)
More examples
- You could hear the echo of footsteps in the stairwell of the building.
- He shouted into the mouth of the cave and waited for the echo.
- Bats have very poor eyesight but they use echoes to locate objects in the dark.
- There's nobody down the well - it's the echo of your own voice you are hearing.
- It was quite spooky when a second later the echo could be heard repeating down the valley.
echo noun [ C ] (SIMILAR DETAIL)
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Remembering, reminding and reminders
- a blast from the past idiom
- aide-mémoire
- be engraved on sb's memory/mind idiom
- be etched on/in sb's memory idiom
- be your epitaph idiom
- clock
- imprint
- indelible
- jog sb's memory idiom
- keepsake
- let's see idiom
- pat
- recall
- retrospect
- ring a bell idiom
- shade
- souvenir
- stamped on sb's memory idiom
- stick in sb's mind/head/memory idiom
- take sb back
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