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ON'OMATOPE,

ON'OMATOPY, n. [Gr. name, and to make.]

1. In grammar and rhetoric, a figure in which words are formed to resemble the sound made by the thing signified; as, to buzz, as bees; to crackle, as burning thorns or brush.

2. A word whose sound corresponds to the sound of the thing signified.

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