Definition of "echoed" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of echo. (verb)

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• "It is no quirk that the avid reader of James Joyce and a qualified linguist, atomic physicist Murray Gell-Mann, chose quark over quork, based on the phrase "Three quarks for Muster Mark" in "Finnegan's Wake," because he had found there were three kinds of quarks in a proton and the word echoed the phrase "three quarts for Mister" elsewhere in the novel "Dairy Daring: Quark," Week in Words, Jan. 21."
• "The phrase echoed in my head; I thought of Beckett's Waiting For Godot."
• "My name echoed from his lips like a prayer, murmured in gentle refrain."