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What does onomatopoeia mean?

Looking for the meaning or definition of the word onomatopoeia? Here's what it means.

Noun
  1. (uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
  2. (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
    1. (countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature; an ideophone, phenomime.
  3. (rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
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The sounds of living, onomatopoeia and words, were the purpose of that voice.
From time to time, of course, name and music fuse, and you get a kind of etymological perfection that's somehow close to onomatopoeia.
Did you ever consider approaching your linguistics department with a master's thesis solely dedicated to onomatopoeia?
Some people just use onomatopoeia, while others insist on miming the playing of drums and crashing of cymbals.
Ji Lee, creative director at Facebook, plays with type in his new book, creating works of visual onomatopoeia.
Yet the aural discipline plays a major part in poetic meaning, in ways that go far beyond mere onomatopoeia.

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