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▸ 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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