ON'OMATOPE, ON'OMATOPY, noun [Gr. name, and to make.] 1. In grammar and rhetoric, a figure in which words are formed to resemble the sound made by the thing signified; as, to buzz, as bees; to crackle, as burning thorns or brush. 2. A word whose sound corresponds to the sound of the thing signified.
Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary ↗ · public-domain · returned verbatim, no AI