how to pronounce onomatopoeia

/ˌɒn.əˌmæt.əˈpiː.ə/

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onomatopoeia is pronounced in six syllables

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An example use of onomatopoeia in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… comes from the onomatopoeia poop n or …”

meanings of onomatopoeia

noun:

The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.
A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.
The use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.
(countable) A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle" or "hiss".

onomatopoeia frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word onomatopoeia occurs in english on average 0.1 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics onomatopoeia can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that onomatopoeia can be often used in the following areas:

1) education, science, and technology;