poet

[ poh-it ]

/ ˈpoʊ ɪt /

noun

a person who composes poetry.

a person who has the gift of poetic thought, imagination, and creation, together with eloquence of expression.

Origin of poet

1250–1300; Middle English poete < Latin poēta < Greek poiētḗs poet, literally, maker, equivalent to poiē-, variant stem of poieîn to make + -tēs agent noun suffix

SYNONYMS FOR poet

1 versifier, bard.

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OTHER WORDS FROM poet

po·et·less, adjective po·et·like, adjective non·po·et, noun

Words nearby poet

poems syndrome, poenology, poep, poepol, poesy, poet, poet laureate, poet., poetaster, poetess, poetic

Definition for poet (2 of 2)

poet.

poetic.

poetical.

poetry.

Example sentences from the Web for poet

The poet apparently collapsed in the street upon his departure from “The Horse” and died not long after.

The Bars That Made America Great |Nina Strochlic |December 28, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”

When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth |Brian Moynahan |November 9, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
And, for that matter, where is our poet who could damn any of them for it?

Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween |P. J. O’Rourke |November 1, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The West awarded him the Nobel prize for literature in 1987 and America made Brodsky its poet laureate in 1991.

From Moscow to Queens, Down Sergei Dovlatov Way |Daniel Genis |September 15, 2014 |DAILY BEAST

My father, for his part, believed the poet had something like supernatural powers.

Stephen King, “Falling,” and My Father’s Poetry |Christopher Dickey |September 14, 2014 |DAILY BEAST
The poet Byron's bedroom remains almost as he left it, and on the lawn is the monument to his favorite dog, "Boatswain."

England, Picturesque and Descriptive |Joel Cook
He affirms, That scarce a poet from Homer down to Dryden ever felt his fire diminished merely by his advance in years.

Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works |Anonymous
The poet had touched on some unidentified form of the story, long before, in The Lady of Shalott.

Alfred Tennyson |Andrew Lang
The year 1841 was brightened by the marriage of Miss Dora Wordsworth, the only surviving daughter of the poet.

Dorothy Wordsworth |Edmund Lee
Is it credible that a Clarendon Press editor should be ignorant that ivydoctarum heder prmia frontiumis the emblem of the poet?

Ephemera Critica |John Churton Collins

British Dictionary definitions for poet

poet

sometimes when feminine poetess

/ (ˈpəʊɪt) /

noun

a person who writes poetry

a person with great imagination and creativity

Word Origin for poet

C13: from Latin poēta, from Greek poiētēs maker, poet, from poiein to make

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poet

noun

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Definition for poet (2 of 2)

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Example sentences from the Web for poet

British Dictionary definitions for poet

sometimes when feminine poetess

noun

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