onomatopoeia

IPA: ɑnʌmætʌpˈɔˈeɪiʌ

(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".
(countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.
(uncountable, rhetoric) The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

Examples of "onomatopoeia" in Sentences

Flag is thought possibly to be an onomatopoeia, which is to say flap sounds a bit like a flag flapping.
My favorite word at the time was onomatopoeia, and the boys got a big kick out of the pee sound in that.
This morning it was Krumphau - the "Crooked Cut", though I like to imagine a certain onomatopoeia in the term.
I like the word onomatopoeia, and not just because I still remember how to spell it from third grade spelling classes.
Still, there was time enough for them to shout out the sounds of letters in chorus everyday and to memorize the words "onomatopoeia" and "metaphor."
Finally he took his stance, wig-wagged his butt a bit, then weighed into the ball-a nice clean stroke, the solid thwock, if I maybe allowed just one little onomatopoeia.
If the "pteetsee" part of that means bird or birds milk, I think it's a great bit of onomatopoeia, just like that the Chinese word for 'cat' sounds a lot like the noise a cat makes.
BRIC À BRAC (a French word, formed by a kind of onomatopoeia, meaning a heterogeneous collection of odds and ends; cf. _de bric et de broc_, corresponding to our "by hook or by crook"; or by reduplication from
The masthead is in a font that is made to look cracked, this links to the idea of onomatopoeia that 'kerrang' sounds like the crashing sound of a symbol, connoting again the style of music the magazine is based on.