Echo:

(also, less commonly: ‘echoer’ & ‘echoist’; plural: ‘echoes‘; pronunciation: the letters ‘ch’ are pronounced with a ‘k’ sound as in the word “king”)

Apart from several other meanings/definitions…

an echo (imitating a bird's call)

a person (or thing) that copies or repeats others’ opinions, clothes, speech, etc.;

a copycat;

a person who accepts others’ opinions without objection,

e.g.

When the young politician realised that he was being an echo of his senior, he stopped following his senior’s speeches and tactics and started developing his own.

Being an echo to somebody is nothing more than being a slave; one must have one’s own thoughts and the strength to express those thoughts.

To save their jobs and income, most staff members tend to be echoes and oblige whatever the bosses say.

Some political pundits are in the opinion that most people in the former Soviet Republic were just echoes who did not express their real feeling freely for fear of being persecuted by the then socialist government, just like it’s happening in China now!

For an article that shows us how this word is used for a person, please click here, for an article that advises people to be ‘a voice’ not an ‘echo’, please click here, and for another blog post that talks about not being an echo, please click here.

an echo (a killer whale finding a fish with echolocation)

A more common meaning is the sound (sound waves) that bounces back from a surface; a resound of something. For an article that explains what an echo (sound) is and how we hear echoes, please click here. For an article on what an ‘echo’ is in the computer world, please click here. For an article that explains how this word is used in the medical field, please click here. For an article that explains why telephones echo, please click here.
Note: ‘Echo’, always with a capital ‘E’, is occasionally found in the names of people, mostly in female names, e.g. Echo Brittny, Joe Echo, etc.

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