onomatopoeia

  1. Noun.  (uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
  2. Noun.  (countable) A word which has the property of onomatopoeia, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".
  3. Noun.  (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

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