Onomatope vs. Onomatopoeia — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Onomatope and Onomatopoeia
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Onomatope
(linguistics) A word formed by onomatopoeia or mimesis
Onomatopoeia
Onomatopoeia (also onomatopeia in American English), is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia.
Onomatope
An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.
Onomatopoeia
The formation or use of words such as buzz or murmur that imitate the sounds associated with the objects or actions they refer to.
Onomatopoeia
(uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
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Onomatopoeia
(countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle," "stutter," or "hiss".
Onomatopoeia
(countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.
Onomatopoeia
The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
Onomatopoeia
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.
Onomatopoeia
Using words that imitate the sound they denote
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