Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. A writer of poems.
- n. One who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical: "[the naturalist John Burroughs] was the bard of the bird feeder, the poet of the small and homey” ( Bill McKibben).
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who composes or indites a poem: an author of metrical compositions.
- n. One skilled in the art of making poetry, or of metrical composition; one distinguished by the possession of poetic faculties or susceptibilities; one endowed with the gift and power of imaginative invention and creation attended by corresponding eloquence of expression, commonly but not necessarily in a metrical form.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French poete, from Latin poēta, from Greek poiētēs, maker, composer, from poiein, to create; see kwei-2 in Indo-European roots.
Examples
“POOR MALONE! if he had ever heard the old adage, that “_none but a poet should edit a poet_,” he would have saved his midnight oil, and solicited a ray from”
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“From ancient times in Greece and later in Rome, the leaves of the laurel tree were used to create crowns in honor of the greatest poets of their times, thus leading to the term poet laureate.”
“I had the title poet, and maybe I was one for a while.”
“The poet is a word craftsman, a master of language.”
“As a poet, pure and simple, as a refined verse maker in all directions, Mr. Dunbar surpasses Mr. Whitman by far in the truest significance in the term poet, and he is justly assigned the first place among Negro poets.”
“To understand this nonsense of poor Renzos, the reader must know that, amongst the lower orders in Milan, and still more in the country, the term poet did not signify, as among all educated people, a sacred genius, an inhabitant of Pindus, a votary of the Muses; it rather meant a humorous and even giddy-headed person, who in conversation and behaviour had more repartee and novelty than sense.”
“The title poet laureate - officially announced today as having been given to Carol Ann Duffy - owes its name to the laurels used by ancient Greeks to crown their most celebrated poets.”
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“Even a poet who wants to break from tradition, if the poet is ambitious, will do so and in effect be addressing that tradition by the very act of breaking from tradition.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘poet’.
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artists
different kind of artists.. any kind (general or specific types).
algorist, painter, sculptor, singer, musician, dancer, writer, puppeteer, actor, poet, cartoonist, photographer and 19 more...
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I'm Not There
Favorite words from Bob Dylan and the movie "I'm Not There"
raincoat, dreamer, create, poet, trapeze, drainpipes, visions, highway, harmonicas, rain, tombstone, geometry and 8 more...
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work
director, president, chief, boss, consultant, adviser, assistant, advisor, specialist, manager, employee, counselor and 65 more...
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