Word Meanings - ONOMATOPOETIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.

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• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• EARLET
  An earring. The Ismaelites were accustomed to wear golden earlets. Judg. viii. 24
• ONOMATOPOEIA
  The formation of words in imitation of sounds; a figure of speech in which the sound of a word is imitative of the sound of the thing which the word represents; as, the buzz of bees; the hiss of a goose; the crackle of fire. Note: It has
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• PERTAIN
  stretch out, reach, pertain; per + tenere to hold, keep. See Per-, 1. To belong; to have connection with, or dependence on, something, as an appurtenance, attribute, etc.; to appertain; as, saltness pertains to the ocean; flowers pertain to plant
• CHARACTERIZE
  1. To make distinct and recognizable by peculiar marks or traits; to make with distinctive features. European, Asiatic, Chinese, African, and Grecian faces are Characterized. Arbuthot. 2. To engrave or imprint. Sir M. Hale. 3. To indicate the
• EARLES PENNY
  Earnest money. Same as Arles penny.
• CHARACTERIZATION
  The act or process of characterizing.
• IMITATIVE
  Designed to imitate another species of animal, or a plant, or inanimate object, for some useful purpose, such as protection from enemies; having resamblance to something else; as, imitative colors; imitative habits; dendritic and mammillary forms
• ONOMATOPOETIC
  Of or pertaining to onomatopoeia; characterized by onomatopoeia; imitative; as, an onomatopoetic writer or word. Earle.
• EARLESS
  Without ears; hence, deaf or unwilling to hear. Pope.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• MISCHARACTERIZE
  To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to. They totally mischaracterize the action. Eton.
• FEARLESS
  Free from fear. Syn. -- Bold; courageous; interpid; valor -- Fear"less*ly, adv. -- Fera"less*ness, n.
• NEWS-WRITER
  One who gathered news for, and wrote, news-letters. Macaulay.
• TYPEWRITER
  1. An instrument for writing by means of type, a typewheel, or the like, in which the operator makes use of a sort of keyboard, in order to obtain printed impressions of the characters upon paper. 2. One who uses such an instrument.
• ICY-PEARLED
  Spangled with ice. Mounting up in icy-pearled car. Milton.
• TEARLESS
  Shedding no tears; free from tears; unfeeling. -- Tear"less*ly, adv. -- Tear"less*ness, n.