Definition for Onomatopoeia:

• on-[= o]- mat-o-p[= e]' ya, n. the formation of a word so as to resemble the sound of the thing of which it is the name: such a word itself, also the use of such a word, as ' click,' ' cuckoo'-- also ONOMATOPO[= E]' SIS, or ONOMATOPOI[= E]' SIS.-- adjs. ONOMATOPOE'IC, ONOMATOPOET'IC. [ Gr. onoma, - atos, a name, poiein, to make.]

Synonyms for Onomatopoeia:

• n.

  •
  • anagram,
  • catch-all,
  • chant,
  • acrostic,
  • mimesis,
  • anglicism,
  • borrowing,
  • archaism,
  • clue,
  • Arabism,
  • americanism.
  •
  • same,
  • sounds.
  •communication (noun)
  • onomatopoeia.
  •echo (noun)
  • mirror image,
  • reflection,
  • rebound,
  • reproduction,
  • mirror,
  • reiteration,
  • imitation,
  • parallel,
  • repetition,
  • answer,
  • rubber stamp,
  • reverberation,
  • parroting,
  • repercussion,
  • reply.
  •figure of speech (noun)
  • comparison,
  • Tropology,
  • turn of phrase,
  • bathos,
  • communication that is not meant literally; stylistic device,
  • figuration,
  • imagery,
  • irony,
  • anaphora,
  • Asyndeton,
  • anticlimax,
  • antistrophe,
  • litotes,
  • satire,
  • expression,
  • malapropism,
  • metonymy,
  • understatement,
  • euphemism,
  • device,
  • analogue,
  • allusion,
  • adumbration,
  • conceit,
  • ellipsis,
  • synecdoche,
  • image,
  • parallelism,
  • hyperbole,
  • allegory,
  • paradox,
  • trope,
  • alliteration,
  • sarcasm,
  • analogy,
  • personification,
  • oxymoron,
  • simile,
  • euphuism,
  • metaphor,
  • proteron,
  • exaggeration,
  • flourish,
  • ornament,
  • way of speaking,
  • rhetoric,
  • antithesis,
  • flower,
  • apostrophe,
  • parable,
  • contrast,
  • manner of speaking,
  • aposiopesis.

• Other synonyms:

  •
  • echoism.

Antonyms for Onomatopoeia:

• n.

  • echo
    difference, question, reverse, opposite.

Hyponym for Onomatopoeia:

• n.

  • communication
    rhetorical device.