What is another word for echoes?

Pronunciation: [ˈɛkə͡ʊz] (IPA)

Echoes are the reverberations of sound waves that bounce off surfaces, creating a repeating effect. Synonyms for this word include reflections, reverberations, repetitions, resounds, and duplicates. Each of these words describes the concept of sound that is bounced back, creating a secondary effect. Reflections and reverberations are similar to echoes but imply a more sustained effect. Repetitions and resounds suggest repetition, and duplicates indicate an identical or nearly identical sound wave. All of these synonyms can be used interchangeably with "echoes" depending on the context. Whether you're describing the sound in a canyon or a stadium, using a synonym for echo can add variation to your writing.

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Usage examples for Echoes

The echoes mingle with the harsh, wailing screams, and roar of wings become almost deafening as the birds wheel in clouds above the ship, or sail swiftly away and return again like a flash to join their young, whose tiny white heads may be seen peeping anxiously above the sides of the nests.
"Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia"
Maturin M. Ballou
And in 1918 appeared a volume, echoes of the War, the most important one-act play therein being The Old Lady Shows Her Medals.
"Contemporary One-Act Plays Compiler: B. Roland Lewis"
Sir James M. Barrie George Middleton Althea Thurston Percy Mackaye Lady Augusta Gregor Eugene Pillot Anton Tchekov Bosworth Crocker Alfred Kreymborg Paul Greene Arthur Hopkins Paul Hervieu Jeannette Marks Oscar M. Wolff David Pinski Beulah Bornstead Herma
Sympathetic echoes were felt rather than expressed.
"I Walked in Arden"
Jack Crawford

Famous quotes with Echoes

  • Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
    Giotto di Bondone
  • The person who tries to live alone will not succeed as a human being. His heart withers if it does not answer another heart. His mind shrinks away if he hears only the echoes of his own thoughts and finds no other inspiration.
    Pearl S. Buck
  • When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
    Thomas Carlyle
  • People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
    Jill Clayburgh
  • How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
    Eliza Cook

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