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onomatopoesies

onomatopoesies is the plural of onomatopoesy.

Meaning of onomatopoesy

Noun

onomatopoesy (countable and uncountable, plural onomatopoesies)

  1. The use of onomatopoeia.
    • Another means is the imitation of sounds by the organ of speech, constituting onomatopoesy , e.g., the hissing of a stream, the roll of thunder, the tumult of a storm, whistling, etc.1892, Leonard Landois, William Stirling, A Text-book of Human Physiology, page 664

Questions about onomatopoesies

What is onomatopoesies the plural of?
Onomatopoesies is the plural of onomatopoesy.

Words near onomatopoesies in the dictionary

  1. onomatopoeic
  2. onomatopoeical
  3. onomatopoeically
  4. onomatopoeics
  5. onomatopoeious
  6. onomatopoesies
  7. onomatopoesis
  8. onomatopoesy
  9. onomatopoetic
  10. onomatopoetical
  11. onomatopoetically

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