Associations to the word «Onomatopoeia»

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

ONOMATOPOEIA, noun. Using words that imitate the sound they denote.