Onomatope vs. Onomatopoeia

Onomatopenoun

(linguistics) A word formed by onomatopoeia or mimesis

Onomatopenoun

An imitative word; an onomatopoetic word.

Onomatopoeianoun

(uncountable) The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.

Onomatopoeianoun

(countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".

Onomatopoeianoun

(countable) A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.

Onomatopoeianoun

The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

Onomatopoeianoun

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.

Onomatopoeianoun

using words that imitate the sound they denote

Onomatopoeia

Onomatopoeia (also onomatopeia in American English), is the process of creating a word that phonetically imitates, resembles, or suggests the sound that it describes. Such a word itself is also called an onomatopoeia.