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Onomatopoeia (also spelled onomatopœia, from Greek: ονοματοποιΐα) is a word or a grouping of words that imitates the sound it is describing, such as animal noises like "oink" or "meow", or suggesting its source object, such as "boom", "zoom", "click", "bunk", "clang", "buzz", or "bang". The word is a synthesis of the Greek words όνομα (onoma, = "name") and ποιέω (poieō, = "I make" or "I create") thus it essentially means "name creation", although it makes more sense combining "name" and "I do", meaning it is named (and spelled) as it sounds (e.g. quack, bang, etc.). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia
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∙ 13y agoan onomatopoeia (note the spelling) is a word whose sound sounds like the word or noise it represents. Bang for instance sounds like something going bang and hiss, sounds like a snake's hiss or the hiss of air escaping a tyre.
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∙ 11y agoimitation of sound in words
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The word is spelled onomatopoeia. An onomatopoeia is a word that sounds like what it is describing. A good example of this is the word quack. The sound that a duck makes is "Quack." The word sounds like the sound it is describing.
