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What does onomatopoeic mean?

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Adjective
  1. Of or relating to onomatopoeia.
  2. Having the property of onomatopoeia.
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Often it stems from his words, which, as in a misspelled grocery sign or an onomatopoeic utterance, appear both everyday and incorrect.
Children's writers make use of onomatopoeic and phonaesthetic words to good effect.
He is the most onomatopoeic of the leading poets, able to imitate the sounds of everything from bird calls to the eerie noise of cracking ice.
But here more than anywhere I remember lost times, lost chances, lost friends, with the sweet tristesse that is onomatopoeic to the place.
In the silent film, allied to the onomatopoeic imitation of sound was the expectation of sound where there was none.
Quite often, the text is a succession of onomatopoeic words, and gives the impression that the boula's base rhythm is being repeated.

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