Hypertext Webster Gateway: "onomatopoeic"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Onomatopoeic \On`o*mat`o*p[oe]"ic\, a.
Onomatopoetic. --Whitney.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
onomatopoeic
adj 1: of or relating to or characterized by onomatopoeia [syn: {onomatopoetic}]
2: (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound;
"onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was
independently developed in more than one place as an
onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer [syn: {echoic}, {imitative},
{onomatopoeical}, {onomatopoetic}] [ant: {nonechoic}]
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