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ECHOING
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(of sounds) repeating by reflection
Example:
a hotel with echoing halls
Synonyms:
echoing; reechoing
Classified under:
Similar:
reverberant (having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
-ing form of the verb echo
Context examples:
“Do you know, I am filled with a strange uplift; I feel as if all time were echoing through me, as though all powers were mine. I know truth, divine good from evil, right from wrong. My vision is clear and far. I could almost believe in God. But,” and his voice changed and the light went out of his face,—“what is this condition in which I find myself? this joy of living? this exultation of life? this inspiration, I may well call it? It is what comes when there is nothing wrong with one’s digestion, when his stomach is in trim and his appetite has an edge, and all goes well. It is the bribe for living, the champagne of the blood, the effervescence of the ferment—that makes some men think holy thoughts, and other men to see God or to create him when they cannot see him.”
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Upstairs, in the solemn echoing drive she let four taxi cabs drive away before she selected a new one, lavender-colored with grey upholstery, and in this we slid out from the mass of the station into the glowing sunshine.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
