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Making a comeback?
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echoic
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Word definitions for echoic in dictionaries
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Of or pertaining to an echo 2 imitative of a sound; onomatopoeic.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. (of words) formed in imitation of a natural sound; "onomatopoeic words are imitative of noises"; "it was independently developed in more than one place as an onomatopoetic term"- Harry Hoijer [syn: imitative , onomatopoeic , onomatopoeical , onomatopoetic ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
echoic \echoic\ adj. (linguistics) Formed in imitation of a natural sound; -- of words. Contrasted to nonechoic . Syn: imitative, onomatopoeic, onomatopoeical, onomatopoetic. Like or characteristic of an echo. Syn: echolike.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1880; see echo (n.) + -ic . A word from the OED.\n\n Onomatopoeia , in addition to its awkwardness, has neither associative nor etymological application to words imitating sounds. It means word-making or word-coining and is strictly as applicable to Comte's ...
Usage examples of echoic.
From down the stairs came the echoic yelp of a dog, then the bang of a door.
My thoughts took on a curiously echoic quality, like a telephone line that is not properly damped at the other end.
Again the Ard-righ spoke, turning his head about so that as many might hear as possible, even in the echoic vastness of that building that could have contained many, many houses.