onomatopoeia
onomatopoeia is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 1 sense, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- agnomen
- all
- and
- antonomasia
- antonym
- baptism
- baptize
- bean
- betacism
- bilingual
- by-name
- byword
- call
- cant
- caption
- characterize
- chrestomathy
- christen
- clepe
- cognomen
- cognominal
- cognomination
- comparative
- compellation
- confusion
- convertible
- current
- dead
- define
- denominate
- denomination
- description
- designate
- designation
- dialect
- dialectic
- distinguish
- dub
- empty
- entitle
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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