| 单词 | onomatopoeia |
| 释义 | onomatopoeia (once / 72512 pages) n Boom! Bang! Crash! When a word is formed from the sound that an associated thing makes, call it an example of onomatopoeia. In Greek, onomatopoeia (on-uh-mah-tuh-PEE-ah) simply means "word-making," but in English it refers to a very specific process of word-making: an attempt to capture the sound of something. Examples of onomatopoeia in English include burble, buzz, slosh, ratatat, and thud. Words created by onomatopoeia can seem totally natural, but they can be surprisingly different from language to language: in Japanese, dogs say wan wan, but in Greek they say gav gav. WORD FAMILYonomatopoeia: onomatopoetic+/onomatopoetic: onomatopoetically USAGE EXAMPLESShe hints at the glamour of firefighters, to a child, by summoning the youthful pleasure of onomatopoeia in a siren’s “long whooing call.” Slate(Apr 08, 2016) Those buzzing kazoos were just one example of Mr. Marsalis’s knack for a sort of musical onomatopoeia. New York Times(Apr 03, 2016) To keep one stenographer at the news conference on alert, Hayes started an answer to one question with the words “cattywampus, onomatopoeia and antidisestablishmentarianism.” Washington Times(Apr 02, 2015) n using words that imitate the sound they denote Hyper rhetorical device a use of language that creates a literary effect (but often without regard for literal significance) |
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