poet
NounUS[poh-uht]/ˈpoʊət/2 syllables
Open English WordNet
Noun (1)poets
- a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)Type of writer, authorKinds elegist, poetess, sonneteer, poet laureate, bard, odistExamples Shakespeare, Wordsworth, Homer, Racine, Coleridge, Dante, Pushkin, Lord Byron, Donne, Alcaeus of Mytilene +132 more
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Po′et noun
Origin: F. poëte, L. poëta, fr. Gr. …, fr. … to make. Cf. Poem.
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.— William Shakespeare
A poet is a maker, as the word signifies.— John Dryden
Poet laureate. See under Laureate.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54