Difference between Reverberate and Echo

What is the difference between Reverberate and Echo?

Reverberate as a verb is to ring with many echos while Echo as a verb is to reflect off of a surface and return to someone who has heard it already.

Reverberate

Part of speech: verb

Definition: to ring with many echos to have a lasting effect to repeatedly return to rebound or recoil to shine or reflect (from a surface, etc.) to shine or glow (on something) with reflected light

Echo

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A reflected sound that is heard again by its initial observer.The displaying on the command line of the command that has just been executed.The letter E in the ICAO spelling alphabet.

Part of speech: verb

Definition: To reflect off of a surface and return to someone who has heard it already.To repeat back precisely what another has just said: to copy in the imitation of a natural echo.To repeat (another's speech, opinion etc.).

Example sentence: Music is the harmonious voice of creation; an echo of the invisible world.

We hope you now know whether to use Reverberate or Echo in your sentence.

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