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Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
Adam Duritz

Meaning of "echoes" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ECHOES

echoes  [ˈekəʊz] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ECHOES

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Echoes is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ECHOES


arose
əˈrəʊz
chose
tʃəʊz
Comoros
ˈkɒməˌrəʊz
corticose
ˈkɔːtɪˌkəʊz
cose
kəʊz
coze
kəʊz
dextroglucose
ˌdɛkstrəʊˈɡluːkəʊz
glucose
ˈɡluːkəʊz
glycose
ˈɡlaɪkəʊz
hose
həʊz
muscose
ˈmʌskəʊz
nose
nəʊz
Penrose
ˈpɛnrəʊz
pose
pəʊz
propose
prəˈpəʊz
rose
rəʊz
suffruticose
səˈfruːtɪˌkəʊz
talcose
ˈtælkəʊz
those
ðəʊz
windows
ˈwɪndəʊz

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ECHOES

echo organ
echo plate
echo sounder
echo sounding
echo stop
ECHO virus
echo-like
echocardiogram
echocardiography
echoer
echoey
echogram
echography
echoic
echoic memory
echoing
echoism
echoist
echoize
echolalia

WORDS THAT END LIKE ECHOES

be in a person´s shoes
boat shoes
canvas shoes
co-respondent shoes
dancing shoes
dress shoes
goody two-shoes
gumshoes
high-heeled shoes
horseshoes
jelly shoes
jogging shoes
lace-up shoes
platform shoes
saddle shoes
sandshoes
shake in one´s shoes
tap shoes
track shoes
training shoes

Synonyms and antonyms of echoes in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

SYNONYMS OF «ECHOES»

The following words have a similar or identical meaning as «echoes» and belong to the same grammatical category.
synonyms of echoes

Translation of «echoes» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ECHOES

Find out the translation of echoes to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of echoes from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «echoes» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

回响
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

ecos
570 millions of speakers

English

echoes
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

गूँज
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

أصداء
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

эхо
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

ecos
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

প্রতিধ্বনি
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

échos
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Gema
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Echos
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

エコー
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

에코
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Gema
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

vang
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

எதிரொலிகள்
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

प्रतिध्वनी
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

yankıları
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

echi
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

echa
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

луна
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ecouri
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

ηχώ
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

eggo´s
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

ekon
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

ekko
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of echoes

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ECHOES»

The term «echoes» is very widely used and occupies the 20.842 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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Principal search tendencies and common uses of echoes
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ECHOES» OVER TIME

The graph expresses the annual evolution of the frequency of use of the word «echoes» during the past 500 years. Its implementation is based on analysing how often the term «echoes» appears in digitalised printed sources in English between the year 1500 and the present day.

Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about echoes

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10 QUOTES WITH «ECHOES»

Famous quotes and sentences with the word echoes.
1
Giotto di Bondone
Rome is the city of echoes, the city of illusions, and the city of yearning.
2
Pearl S. Buck
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.
3
Tim Cahill
In 1952, Muddy cut the song 'Rollin' Stone.' It was a nationwide success, and the song echoes down through rock n' roll history. Bob Dylan cut a tribute by the same name, an English band decided to call themselves the Rolling Stones, and the magazine that first embraced music as a serious cultural phenomenon was itself called 'Rolling Stone.'
4
Thomas Carlyle
When the oak is felled the whole forest echoes with it fall, but a hundred acorns are sown in silence by an unnoticed breeze.
5
Jill Clayburgh
People always seem to see echoes of their own lives in my films.
6
Eliza Cook
How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.
7
Jacques Derrida
My most resolute opponents believe that I am too visible, that I am a little too alive, that my name echoes too much in the texts which they nevertheless claim to be inaccessible.
8
Norman Douglas
Education is a state-controlled manufactory of echoes.
9
Adam Duritz
Sometimes the world seems like a big hole. You spend all your life shouting down it and all you hear are echoes of some idiot yelling nonsense down a hole.
10
Helen Garner
It's disturbing at my age to look at a young woman's destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one's own destructiveness in youth.

10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ECHOES»

Discover the use of echoes in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to echoes and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
1
Echoes
Drawing us into a vanished world, Echoes weaves an intricate tapestry of a mother’s love, a daughter’s courage…and the unwavering faith that sustained them—even in history’s darkest hour. From the Hardcover edition.
Danielle Steel, 2009
2
Echoes
After Clare O'Brien, a poor shopkeeper's daughter, and David Power, a son of a wealthy family of Castlebay, marry, they find the confinements of life in the small Irish seaside town of Castlebay once again closing in.
Maeve Binchy, 2008
3
Echoes
Describes the basic characteristics of echoes and how, by studying them, man has gained valuable information about the nature of sonar exploration and navigation.
Bernice Kohn, Bernice Kohn Hunt, 1979
4
Mountain Echoes
You can never go home again Joanne Walker has survived an encounter with the Master at great personal cost, but now her father is missing—stolen from the timeline.
C.E. Murphy, 2013
5
Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd
From their gigs in tiny church halls to multimillion-selling albums--"The Dark Side" "of the Moon," "Wish You Were Here," and the rock opera "The Wall"--and elaborate stadium shows, this tome celebrates legendary rock band Pink Floyd.
Glenn Povey, 2007
6
Echoes: After Heidegger
In Echoes, John Sallis mobilizes the figure of echo, used by Heidegger to characterize originary thinking, as the motif around which to organize a radical reading of Heidegger's most important texts.
John Sallis, 1990
7
A Stir of Echoes
This eerie ghost story, by award-winning author of Hell House and I Am Legend, inspired the acclaimed 1999 film starring Kevin Bacon.
Richard Matheson, 2007
8
Echoes
This book of poetry offers simple expression as a means for sharing true feelings from the heart--down to earth fundamentals of nature without restriction and with God's blessing.
Sharla Lee Shults, 2004
9
Echoes: A Play in Two Acts
N. Richard Nash Full Length, Drama Characters: 2 male, 1 female Interior Set A young man and woman build a low keyed paradise of happiness within an asylum, only to have it shattered by the intrusion of the outside world.
N. Richard Nash, 1973
10
Echoes
Can't believe she did that . . . . . . at four-thirty I have to .
Melinda Metz, 2010

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «ECHOES»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term echoes is used in the context of the following news items.
1
Greece-EU standoff: Echoes of 'Antigone'
The frantic negotiating to resolve Greece's debt crisis before Sunday's deadline is a race that launched a thousand cliches. We're told that the ... «Los Angeles Times, Jul 15»
2
'Cleveland 8' letter, video echoes grievances against McGinty in …
Leaders from the the community with activists and clergy hold a press conference outside the Justice Center in Cleveland, Tuesday, June 9, ... «cleveland.com, Jul 15»
3
Legislation allowing taxing of nonprofits echoes Northampton proposal
The mayor of Northampton is considering a payment in lieu of taxes proposal for nonprofits such as Cooley Dickinson Hospital and Smith ... «MassLive.com, Jul 15»
4
Natalie Bassingthwaighte's new 'do echoes Kim's recent flirting with …
NATALIE Bassingthwaighte has given herself a Kim Kardashian-style hair makeover. The X Factor judge's caramel-hued locks were dyed ... «The Daily Telegraph, Jul 15»
5
Echoes still heard from canceled EDM show
ATLANTIC CITY— Concerns from business owners and the public lead city officials to cancel the planned July 4 BeachGlow electronic dance ... «Shore News Today, Jul 15»
6
Barclays Management Makeover Has Echoes of the Past
It's back to the future at Barclays Group. BCS -1.31 %. John McFarlane, who has led the Barclays board only since April, added “executive” to ... «Wall Street Journal, Jul 15»
7
The Chemical Brothers - 'Born In The Echoes'
Collaborators return for 'Born In The Echoes', the pair's eighth album and first since 'Further'. But here the Brothers largely bend the singers to ... «NME.com, Jul 15»
8
Summer Budget: Echoes from Conservative-only Budget 19 years ago
George Osborne on Wednesday delivers the first Conservative-only Budget since Ken Clarke in 1996. At the time, Mr Clarke was just months ... «Financial Times, Jul 15»
9
Review: Rebecca Makkai's 'Music for Wartime,' Stories With Echoes
The author leans upon her family history, and upon other Old World echoes, to lend her stories a gravity they only rarely earn on their own. «New York Times, Jul 15»
10
#MayoralChatter: Freeman Echoes Fox's Call to Extend MNPS …
In doing so, he echoes one of his opponents, David Fox, who asked the board in early May to "hit the pause button" on the search until a new ... «Nashville Scene, Jul 15»

REFERENCE
« EDUCALINGO. Echoes [online]. Available <https://educalingo.com/en/dic-en/echoes>. May 2024 ».
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