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onomatopoeia |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Onomatopoeia \On`o*mat`o*p[oe]"ia\, n. [L., fr Gr ?; ?, ?, a name + ? to make.] (Philol.) The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire. Note: It has been maintained by some philologist that all primary words especially names were formed by imitation of natural sounds. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: onomatopoeia n : using words that imitate the sound they denote
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