{
    "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
}