onomatopoeia

noun

1. The property of a word of sounding like what it represents.

2. A word that sounds like what it represents, such as "gurgle," "stutter," or "hiss".

3. A word that appropriates a sound for another sensation or a perceived nature, such as "thud", "beep", or "meow"; an ideophone, phenomime.

4. rhetoricThe use of language whose sound imitates that which it names.

5. Using words that imitate the sound they denote