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{
"term": "echo",
"partOfSpeech": "verb",
"ox5000": true,
"cefr": "c1",
"verbForms": {
"presentSimple": {
"iYouWeThey": "echo",
"heSheIt": "echoes"
},
"pastSimple": "echoed",
"pastParticiple": "echoed",
"ingForm": "echoing"
},
"definitions": [
{
"senseNumber": 1,
"definition": "if a sound echoes, it is reflected off a wall, the side of a mountain, etc. so that you can hear it again",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "Her footsteps echoed in the empty room."
},
{
"text": "The gunshot echoed through the forest."
},
{
"text": "His voice echoed around the room."
},
{
"text": "The call echoed off the walls of the cave."
},
{
"text": "Their voices echoed back across the water."
},
{
"text": "The protest seemed to echo across the room."
},
{
"text": "Her screams still echoed in his ears."
}
],
"synonyms": "reverberate",
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["faintly", "slightly", "softly"],
"verb + echo": ["seem to"],
"preposition": ["across", "around", "round"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 2,
"definition": "to send back and repeat a sound; to be full of a sound",
"sensetop": "echo to/with somethingecho something (back)",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "The whole house echoed."
},
{
"text": "The street echoed with the cries of children.",
"contextForm": "echo to/with something"
},
{
"text": "The valley echoed back his voice.",
"contextForm": "echo something (back)"
},
{
"text": "The great hall echoed with laughter."
}
],
"synonyms": "reverberate",
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["faintly", "slightly", "softly"],
"verb + echo": ["seem to"],
"preposition": ["across", "around", "round"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 3,
"definition": "to repeat an idea or opinion because you agree with it",
"sensetop": "echo something",
"cefr": "c1",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘More police, that’s what we need,’ he said, echoing his father’s views on the subject."
},
{
"text": "This is a view echoed by many on the right of the party."
},
{
"text": "They had ideas which seem to echo our own."
},
{
"text": "an opinion that is widely echoed in the tabloid press"
},
{
"text": "In his statement, the minister merely echoed the views of the chief police officer."
},
{
"text": "Many others echoed her opinion that a change in the law was necessary."
}
],
"topics": ["Opinion and argument"],
"collocations": {
"adverb": ["exactly", "widely", "clearly"],
"verb + echo": ["seem to"]
}
},
{
"senseNumber": 4,
"definition": "to repeat what somebody else has just said, especially because you find it surprising",
"sensetop": "+ speechecho something",
"examples": [
{
"text": "‘He's gone!’ Viv echoed."
}
]
}
],
"pronunciations": {
"uk": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈekəʊ/",
"audio": "ec/echo/echo__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈekəʊz/",
"audio": "ec/echo/echoes__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈekəʊd/",
"audio": "ec/echo/echoed__gb_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈekəʊɪŋ/",
"audio": "ec/echo/echoing__gb_1.mp3"
}
],
"us": [
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈekəʊ/",
"audio": "ec/echo/echo__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈekəʊz/",
"audio": "ec/echo/echoes__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈekəʊd/",
"audio": "ec/echo/echoed__us_1.mp3"
},
{
"pronunciation": "/ˈekəʊɪŋ/",
"audio": "ec/echo/echoing__us_1.mp3"
}
]
},
"wordOrigin": null
}