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Crossword-Solution: ONOMATOPOEIA 12 letters, 26 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 16

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Word Word Type Definition
Onomatopoeia n. The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a
figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound
of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss
of a goose; the crackle of fire.

We have 26 clues for the answer “ONOMATOPOEIA”

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Words that imitate sounds, in literary terms 1 answer
Word whose sound suggests its meaning 1 answer
using words that imitate the sound they denote 1 answer
Literary device for words echoing natural noises 1 answer
Formation of words such as hiss or buzz 1 answer
Formation of words like "buzz" or "hiss" 1 answer
Formation of words from natural sounds. 1 answer
Feature of "buzz" and "boing" 1 answer
FORMATION of words from sounds associated with the object/action to be named 1 answer
FORMATION of names from sounds associated with the object/action to be named 1 answer
ECHOISM 1 answer
Ding-a-ling or ding-dong 1 answer
Word formation that imitates sounds, like "buzz" or "clang" 1 answer
... using ___: "Mary had a wee lamb -- baa! / Its fleece was snowy -- whoosh!" 1 answer
*Words that come from clams 1 answer
"To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells . . . " 1 answer
"Cuckoo" or "whippoorwill," e.g. 1 answer
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," literarily 1 answer
"Buzz" or "pop," e.g. 1 answer
"Buzz" or "hiss," e.g. 1 answer
PING-PONG 2 answers
Snap, Crackle and Pop, e.g. 5 answers
Crackle colleague 10 answers
crackle 10 answers
CRACKLE ENDER 10 answers
Imitator 69 answers
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
AEAR
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with ONOMATOPOEIA (5)

Souni la--Vedrem,” shrieked old Asie, with the Red-Indian intonations peculiar to these female costermongers, who disfigure their words in such a way that they are transformed into a sort onomatopoeia incomprehensible to any but Parisians.
Scenes from a Courtesan’s Life Honore de Balzac 1999
They seem to be fraught with a subtle onomatopoeia, severally suggesting by their sounds the grace or sanctity or solid comfort of the things which they connote.
Yet Again Max Beerbohm 2000
Cecilia's Day,' both written for a musical society's annual festival in honor of the patron saint of their art, are finely spirited and among the most striking, though not most delicate, examples of onomatopoeia in all poetry.
A History of English Literature Robert Huntington Fletcher 2005
Mother Goose rhymes abound in these nonsense refrains, and they are often fine examples of onomatopoeia.
A Nonsense Anthology Collected by Carolyn Wells 2005
Besides the words created by direct onomatopoeia, there are quite a number which are really Indian, but have their origin in the similarity of sound to sense.
Dictionary of the Chinook Jargon, or, Trade Language of Oregon George Gibbs 2005

Quotes with ONOMATOPOEIA (3)

Life is too fleet for onomatopoeia.
Mervyn Peake Titus Groan
I flinch. Maybe you have to be male to understanding that castration can't be reduced to finger-scissors and some onomatopoeia.
Mark Mills Waiting for Doggo
A poem must be authentic. It could be flowery, it could have the most brilliant metaphor, it could be bursting with onomatopoeia and alliteration, assonance and consonance, hyperbole and paradox, from every end, it could have daring syntax and clever cacophony, it could have a neat and ordered rhyme scheme... but, if it loses its authenticity, its ability to convey the very heart and soul of the poet, then all the euphony and cacophony in the world cannot make up for the loss…
Gina Marinello-Sweeney
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Appears in: Chronicle, LAT, NYT, USA TODAY, WSJ.

Used 13 times in crossword archives (1943–2022).