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
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.