echoey

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adjective

That echoes; having an echoing quality.

OriginEnglish echo ← Middle English eccho ← Medieval Latin ēccō →
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Meanings

adjectiveechoey (comparative more echoey or echoier, superlative most echoey or echoiest)

comparative more echoey · comparative echoier · superlative most echoey · superlative echoiest

  1. That echoes; having an echoing quality.

    That nostalgic luxury is particularly obvious in the former station buffet, which still functioned as a restaurant when I was last there several years ago. Empty and echoey, it was doing brisk trade in Orient Express vintage posters, several of which now adorn my garden office walls.

    2025 October 1, Vitali Vitaliev, “Life's little luxuries”, in RAIL, number 1045, page 84

Origin

  1. Ancient Greekἠχώ (ēkhṓ)
  2. Latinēchō
  3. Medieval Latinēccō
  4. Middle Englisheccho
  5. Englishecho
  6. Englishechoey

From echo + -ey.

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APA

echoey. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echoey

MLA

“echoey.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echoey. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “echoey,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/echoey.

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