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echoing

Other forms: echoingly

Something that's echoing resounds or reverberates. The echoing halls of a large building seem full of repeating, reflected sounds.

An echoing cathedral might resound with the notes sung by a choir, and a creepy haunted house could be echoing too, with mysterious bumps and groans. The adjective echoing comes from the noun echo, a "sound repeated by reflection," which is rooted in the mythical Greek figure of Echo. a nymph who pined for love until only her voice was left, echoing through the mountains.

Definitions of echoing
  1. adjective
    (of sounds) repeating by reflection
    “a hotel with echoing halls”
    synonyms: reechoing
    reverberant
    having a tendency to reverberate or be repeatedly reflected
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