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onomatopoeia

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Donald, on the other hand, began imitating Gua’s barks and onomatopoeia, which may have been one reason the experiment ended in just six months.

Reading his writing can be kind of like taking a psychedelic — a literary onomatopoeia.

He seemed as much taken aback as if he had found a tribe of Cherokees studying onomatopoeia in English verse.

All words which were spontaneously acquired seemed to be instances of onomatopoeia.

Onomatopoeia, formations of words resembling in sound that of the things denoted by them.

Mao, the term for a "cat," is obviously an example of onomatopoeia.

This correspondence of sound and sense is called onomatopoeia.

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On this page you'll find 75 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to onomatopoeia, such as: imitation, parallel, reflection, repetition, reverberation, and answer.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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