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Categories: Poetic devices, Onomatopoeia, Articles with short description, Types of words, Style (fiction)
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onomatopoeia
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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