Echoic Definition & Meaning

echoic
adjective
  1. (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
  2. like or characteristic of an echo

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