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Meaning of "onomatopoesis" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF ONOMATOPOESIS

onomatopoesis  [ˌɒnəˌmætəpəʊˈiːsɪs] play
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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF ONOMATOPOESIS

noun
adjective
verb
adverb
pronoun
preposition
conjunction
determiner
exclamation
Onomatopoesis is a noun.
A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

WHAT DOES ONOMATOPOESIS MEAN IN ENGLISH?

onomatopoesis

Onomatopoeia

An onomatopoeia (sometimes written as onomatopœia) ( pronunciation (US) (help·info), from the Greek ὀνοματοποιία; ὄνομα for "name" and ποιέω for "I make", adjectival form: "onomatopoeic" or "onomatopoetic") is a word that phonetically imitates, resembles or suggests the source of the sound that it describes. Onomatopoeia (as an uncountable noun) refers to the property of such words. Common occurrences of onomatopoeias include animal noises such as "oink", "meow", "roar" or "chirp". Onomatopoeias are not the same across all languages; they conform to some extent to the broader linguistic system they are part of; hence the sound of a clock may be tick tock in English, dī dā in Mandarin, or katchin katchin in Japanese. Although in the English language the term onomatopoeia means the imitation of a sound, in the Greek language the compound word onomatopoeia (ονοματοποιία) means "making or creating names". For words that imitate sounds the term Ηχομιμητικό (echomimetico or echomimetic) is used.

WORDS THAT RHYME WITH ONOMATOPOESIS


anoesis
ænəʊˈiːsɪs
biopoiesis
ˌbaɪəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
cyesis
saɪˈiːsɪs
diapyesis
ˌdaɪəpaɪˈiːsɪs
empyesis
ˌempaɪˈiːsɪs
erythropoiesis
ɪˌrɪθrəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
galactopoiesis
ɡəˌlæktəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
haematopoiesis
ˌhɛmətəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
haemopoiesis
ˌhiːməʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
hematopoiesis
ˌhemətəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
hemopoiesis
ˌhemətəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
leucocytopoiesis
ˌluːkəˌsaɪtəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
leucopoiesis
ˌluːkəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
leukopoiesis
ˌluːkəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
lymphopoiesis
ˌlɪmfəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs
mythopoesis
ˌmɪθəpəʊˈiːsɪs
noesis
nəʊˈiːsɪs
onomatopoiesis
ˌɒnəˌmætəpɔɪˈiːsɪs
pseudocyesis
ˌsjuːdəʊsaɪˈiːsɪs
uropoiesis
ˌjʊərəʊpɔɪˈiːsɪs

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE ONOMATOPOESIS

onocentaur
onomasiology
onomastic
onomastically
onomastician
onomasticon
onomastics
onomatologist
onomatology
onomatopoeia
onomatopoeic
onomatopoeically
onomatopoeses
onomatopoetic
onomatopoetically
onomatopoieses
onomatopoiesis
Onondaga
Onondagan
onrush

WORDS THAT END LIKE ONOMATOPOESIS

angiogenesis
biosynthesis
carcinogenesis
chondrogenesis
dysgenesis
electrophoresis
genesis
hypothesis
hysteresis
mutagenesis
Nemesis
osteogenesis
parenthesis
pathogenesis
PhD thesis
photosynthesis
prosthesis
synthesis
thesis
transgenesis

Synonyms and antonyms of onomatopoesis in the English dictionary of synonyms

SYNONYMS

Translation of «onomatopoesis» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF ONOMATOPOESIS

Find out the translation of onomatopoesis to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of onomatopoesis from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «onomatopoesis» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

onomatopoesis
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

onomatopoesis
570 millions of speakers

English

onomatopoesis
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

onomatopoesis
380 millions of speakers
ar

Translator English - Arabic

onomatopoesis
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

onomatopoesis
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

onomatopoesis
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

onomatopoesis
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

onomatopoesis
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Onomatopoesis
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

onomatopoesis
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

onomatopoesis
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

onomatopoesis
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Onomatopoesis
85 millions of speakers
vi

Translator English - Vietnamese

onomatopoesis
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

onomatopoesis
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

ऑन्मेटोमोथेसिस
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

onomatopoesis
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

onomatopoesis
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

onomatopoesis
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

onomatopoesis
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

onomatopoesis
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

onomatopoesis
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

onomatopoesis
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

onomatopoesis
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

onomatopoesis
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of onomatopoesis

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «ONOMATOPOESIS»

The term «onomatopoesis» is used very little and occupies the 164.885 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «ONOMATOPOESIS» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about onomatopoesis

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «ONOMATOPOESIS»

Discover the use of onomatopoesis in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to onomatopoesis and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
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Intersensory Origin of Mind: A Revisit to Emergent Evolution
See Rubin, E. (1915) Synsop/evede figurer: studier in psykologisk analyse, Kobenhav: Nordisk, Figure 3. ONOMATOPOESIS AS THE PRIMARY FOUNDATION OF VERBAL COMMUNICATIVE GESTURES A key point of this argument is also ...
Thorne Shipley, 2013
2
Symbol Formation
see also, Distancing, Natural symbols, Onomatopoesis Denotative reference, 20 f , 77 ff see also, Call-sounds, Pointing, Reference Dependenc}' relationships, 170 ff, 439ff expression of, by deaf children, 181 in imagery medium, 457 ff in linear ...
H. Werner, B. Kaplan, 2014
3
Psychoanalysis and Neuroscience
Although sound symbolism differs from simple processes of onomatopoesis,it plays a crucial role in the generation of onomatopoeia-words. In onomatopoesis, consonants and vowels of speech actually mimic some naturally occurring ...
Mauro Mancia, 2007
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The Progressive Dictionary of the English Language: A ...
ONOMATOPOESIS. •oond. Some philologists bold that nil language had Ita origin In this principle ; bat though It Is clear some words are directly and consciously onomato- poettc, such as ding-dong, bow-wow, quack-quack, /'«.., It IB ...
Samuel Fallows, 1835
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Mother India: Monthly Review of Culture
I also availed of the opportunity to ask about ONOMATOPOESIS and some of its allied forms. Quick came the reply from the Reference Editor, Catherine Schwarz. The answer to your query on the spellings onomatopoesis and onomatopoiesis ...
‎2004
6
A Descriptive Grammar Of Dakkhini
They may be organized into seven sub-classes on the basis of type of derivative suffix each sub-class takes (sec. 4.4.4.1). (ii) Those derived from onomatopoesis, e.g., pharphara 'beat with the noise pharphar' (from onomatopoesis, pharphar ...
Khateeb S. Mustafa, 2000
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Finnish Music Quarterly
In the chorus's sounds in the first prologue to Act II, on the other hand, there is a surreal onomatopoesis of sorts - sounds devoid of any real recognisable denotation, which for all we know may be coming from the walls of the poet's shabby ...
‎1989
8
European-language Writing in Sub-Saharan Africa: 1
... a keen feeling for what is well expressed, elegant concision, a taste for alliteration and onomatopoesis, for redundancy and repetition of words. Using a quotation from Césaire, Senghor explained that Maran's inner life was "a tragedy, a duel ...
‎1986
9
Counter-figures: An Essay on Anti-metaphoric Resistance. ...
How Bedeutung refers itself back to Leuchtschopf and behind it, Graugrätiges — onomatopoesis of the voice itself in its idiomaticity, in its timbre, the phenomenal appearance and disappearance of untranslatable singularity. As Reuß observes  ...
Pajari Räsänen, 2007
10
Reckoning Words: Baconian Science and the Construction of ...
The first original, or primitive stage, is the mimetic, whereby word and thing are nearly identical, onomatopoesis ensuring that verbal signifiers reproduce the sensual impression of natural objects. The epics of Homer and Hesiod, as well as the ...
Diana B Altegoer, 2000

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