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Onomatopoeia

//ˌɒnəˌmætəˈpiːə// noun

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Noun

1
The property of a word that sounds like what it represents. uncountable
"A woorde making called of the Grecians Onomatapoia, is when wee make wordes of our owne minde, such as bee derived from the nature of things."
2
using words that imitate the sound they denote wordnet
3
A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss". countable
4
A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".; A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime. countable
5
The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names. rhetoric, uncountable

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin onomatopoeïa, from Ancient Greek ὀνοματοποιία (onomatopoiía, “the coining of a word in imitation of a sound”), from ὀνοματοποιέω (onomatopoiéō, “to coin names”), from ὄνομα (ónoma, “name”) + ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, to do, to produce”). By surface analysis, onomato- + -poeia.

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