Associations to the word «Onomatopoeia»
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Wiktionary
ONOMATOPOEIA, noun. (uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
ONOMATOPOEIA, noun. (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
ONOMATOPOEIA, noun. (uncountable) (rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
ONOMATOPŒIA, noun. Obsolete spelling of onomatopoeia
Dictionary definition
ONOMATOPOEIA, noun. Using words that imitate the sound they denote.
Wise words
Language is a process of free creation; its laws and
principles are fixed, but the manner in which the principles
of generation are used is free and infinitely varied. Even
the interpretation and use of words involves a process of
free creation.