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Echoic

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Adjective

1. echoic, imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic

(of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound

Example Sentences:
'onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises'
'it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term'

2. echoic, echolike

like or characteristic of an echo

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Echoic

see synonyms of echoic
adjective
1. 
characteristic of or resembling an echo
2. 
onomatopoeic; imitative

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Echoic

see synonyms of echoic
adjective
1. 
having the nature of an echo
2. 
imitative in sound; onomatopoeic: a term used, as in the etymologies of this dictionary, to indicate that a word, as tinkle, is formed in approximate imitation of some sound

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Echoic

see synonyms of echoic
adj.
1. Of or resembling an echo.
2. Imitative of natural sounds; onomatopoeic: an echoic word.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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