Definition

1. Noun:

   • The echo of an echo: A sound that is the result of an initial sound being reflected back (an echo), and then that reflected sound itself being reflected again, creating a repeated, diminishing series of the original sound.

2. Verb:

   • To echo back again; to reverberate repeatedly: To sound again by reflection, or to be reflected multiple times in succession, creating a series of echoes.

Usage

• Noun: Used to describe the specific acoustic phenomenon of a repeated, secondary echo.
• Verb: Used to describe the action of a sound being reflected more than once, or to describe something that repeats or resembles an earlier event or sentiment.

Examples

• Noun:

  • The re-echo of the gunshot in the canyon was faint but distinct.
  • We listened to the re-echo of our shouts fading into the mountains.

• Verb:

  • His laughter would re-echo through the empty halls.
  • The sentiment expressed by the leader was re-echoed by the entire crowd.

Advanced Usage

• Figurative Use: The verb can be used figuratively to describe ideas, feelings, or events that are repeated or mirrored.
  • The tragic lessons of history seem to re-echo in every generation.
  • Her words of wisdom re-echoed in my mind for days.

Variants and Related Words

• Echo (noun/verb): The primary reflection of a sound; to be repeated by reflection.
• Reverberate (verb): To resound or re-echo repeatedly; to have a continuing effect.
• Reverberation (noun): A sound that echoes or re-echoes; a continuing effect.

Synonyms

• Noun: Secondary echo, repeated echo, reverberation.
• Verb: Reverberate, resound, ring, repeat, reflect.

Related Phrases

• To die away in re-echoes: To fade out through a series of diminishing echoes.
  • The final chord of the symphony died away in gentle re-echoes through the concert hall.

Noun

1. the echo of an echo