Usually means: Imitates sound it refers to.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word onomatopoeia:

General (25 matching dictionaries)
  1. onomatopoeia: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. onomatopoeia: Merriam-Webster
  3. onomatopoeia: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. onomatopoeia: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. onomatopoeia: Collins English Dictionary
  6. onomatopoeia: Vocabulary.com
  7. Onomatopoeia, onomatopoeia: Wordnik
  8. onomatopoeia: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. onomatopoeia: Wiktionary
  10. onomatopoeia: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. onomatopoeia: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. onomatopoeia: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Onomatopoeia, onomatopoeia: Dictionary.com
  14. onomatopoeia: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. Onomatopoeia (comics), Onomatopoeia: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Onomatopoeia: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. onomatopoeia: Rhymezone
  18. Onomatopoeia: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. onomatopoeia: FreeDictionary.org
  20. onomatopoeia: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. onomatopoeia: TheFreeDictionary.com
  22. Onomatopoeia: World Wide Words
  23. onomatopoeia: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (8 matching dictionaries)
  1. onomatopoeia: Global Glossary
  2. Silva Rhetoricae: The Forest of Rhetoric (No longer online)
  3. Onomatopoeia: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  4. Glossary of Rhetorical Terms with Examples (No longer online)
  5. Linguistic Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Literary Criticism (No longer online)
  7. Onomatopoeia: A Handbook of Rhetorical Devices
  8. ONOMATOPOEIA: Bobs Byway OF POETIC TERMS

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. onomatopoeia: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. onomatopoeia: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. onomatopoeia: A Word A Day
  2. onomatopoeia: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Postmodern Bible Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. onomatopoeia: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See onomatopoeias as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (uncountable) The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
noun:  (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
noun:  (countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.
noun:  (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

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