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How to pronounce “onomatopoeia”
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Pronunciation guide for onomatopoeia
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of onomatopoeia with real speech in context.
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A simile, double entendre, onomatopoeia, end rhyme, internal rhyme and so on.
- Definition summary
- (uncountable) The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
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How to pronounce onomatopoeia
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A simile, double entendre, onomatopoeia, end rhyme, internal rhyme and so on.
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Meaning
- [Noun]
- (uncountable) The property of a word that sounds like what it represents.
- (countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle", "stutter", or "hiss".
- (uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
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