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Noun Concept
Categories: Style (fiction), Articles with short description, Types of words, Onomatopoeia, Poetic devices
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onomatopoeia  Cross-cultural differences in onomatopoeia  Echoic  Omomatopoeia  Omomatopœia
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Using words that imitate the sound they denote WordNet 3.0
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Using words that imitate the sound they denote WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
Onomatopoeia is the use or creation of a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Wikipedia
Specifically a word that imitates the sound of an explosion or gunshot, like in comics Wikipedia Disambiguation
Words that imitate the sound they describe Wikidata
A word intended to represent a sound. OmegaWiki
The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names. Wiktionary
IS A
rhetorical device
Rhetorical device
dog
ideophone
HAS KIND
Japanese sound symbolism
Esperanto onomatopoeia
HAS INSTANCE
Vroom
wah-wah
Tamil onomatopoeia
blah, blah, blah
DERIVATION
echoic
onomatopoeic
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
The Nuttall Encyclopædia
WordNet 3.0 & Open English WordNet
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onomatopoeia
Wikipedia
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onomatopoeia
Wikidata
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onomatopoeia
Wiktionary
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onomatopoeia
OmegaWiki
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onomatopoeia
Wikipedia Redirections
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Cross-cultural differences in onomatopoeia, Echoic, Omomatopoeia, Omomatopœia, Onamatapia, Onamatapoeia, Onamatappear, Onamatopeia, Onamatopoeia, Onametopia, Onamonapia, Onematopeia, Onematopoeia, Onomanopeia, Onomatapeia, onomatapoeia, Onomatopaea, onomatopaeia, Onomatope, Onomatopea, Onomatopeeia, Onomatopeia, onomatopeic, Onomatopeotic, Onomatopia, Onomatopiea, Onomatopoea, onomatopoeiac, onomatopoeiae, onomatopoeias, onomatopoeic, Onomatopoesis, onomatopoetic, Onomatopoetically, Onomatopoiea, onomatopœia, onomatopœic, Onomatpoeia, Onomonopeia, Onomonopia, Onomonopiea, onomotopeia, Onomotopoeia, Onomotopoia, Sound words, Verbal interjection, Words for sounds
Wikidata Alias
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onomatopœia

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