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What is the noun for onomatopoeia?

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onomatopoeia
  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.
  4. Synonyms:
  5. Examples:
    1. “Did you ever consider approaching your linguistics department with a master's thesis solely dedicated to onomatopoeia?”
      “Yet the aural discipline plays a major part in poetic meaning, in ways that go far beyond mere onomatopoeia.”
      “Some people just use onomatopoeia, while others insist on miming the playing of drums and crashing of cymbals.”
onomatope
  1. (linguistics) A word formed by onomatopoeia or mimesis
  2. Synonyms:
onomatopy
  1. Obsolete form of onomatopoeia.
onomatopoeian
  1. (obsolete) A word formed by onomatopoeia.
onomatopeia
  1. US spelling of onomatopoeia
onomatopoeiae
  1. plural form of onomatopoeia
  2. Synonyms:
  3. Examples:
    1. “As in other languages, onomatopoeiae stand outside the normal phonotactics of English.”
onomatopoeians
  1. plural of onomatopoeian
onomatopoeias
onomatopeias
  1. plural of onomatopeia
onomatopes
onomatopies
  1. plural of onomatopy
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