What is "poet" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does poet mean in English? Meaning of poet definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "poet" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "poet": a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

Noun

  • Meaning: a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
  • Synonyms: poet
  • Hyponyms: bard elegist odist poet laureate poetess sonneteer
  • Hypernyms: author writer
  • Instance Hyponyms: a. e. housman alan seeger alcaeus aleksandr aleksandrovich blok aleksandr sergeyevich pushkin alexander alexandrovich blok alexander pope alexander pushkin alfred de musset alfred edward housman alfred lord tennyson alfred noyes alfred tennyson algernon charles swinburne allen ginsberg allen tate amy lowell andrei voznesenski andrew marvell anne bradstreet anne dudley bradstreet anne sexton apollinaire archibald macleish arnold arp arthur rimbaud arthur symons auden bard of avon baudelaire ben jonson benet benjamin jonson bertolt brecht blake blok boccaccio bradstreet brecht brooke browning burns butler byron calderon calderon de la barca carducci carew catullus charles baudelaire charles pierre baudelaire chaucer christopher marlowe ciardi coleridge corneille cowper crane cynewulf cynwulf dame edith louisa sitwell dame edith sitwell dante dante alighieri de la mare dickinson donne dryden dylan marlais thomas dylan thomas edgar allan poe edgar lee masters edmond rostand edmund john millington synge edmund spenser edward fitzgerald edward james hughes edward young edwin arlington robinson elinor morton hoyt wylie eliot elizabeth barrett browning emily dickinson erik axel karlfeldt ezra loomis pound ezra pound first baron tennyson fitzgerald francesco petrarca francis scott key francis turner palgrave francois villon frederico garcia lorca friedrich gottlieb klopstock frost gaius valerius catullus garcia lorca geoffrey chaucer george meredith gerard manley hopkins giambattista marini giambattista marino gilbert ginsberg giosue carducci giovanni boccaccio goethe gongora gray guillaume apollinaire hans arp harold hart crane hart crane henrik ibsen henrik johan ibsen henry wadsworth longfellow herrick hesiod hoffmannsthal hogg homer hopkins horace housman hughes hugo hugo von hoffmannsthal ibsen isaac watts j. m. synge james hogg james whitcomb riley jarrell jean arp jean baptiste racine jean nicholas arthur rimbaud jean racine jeffers jimenez johann ludwig uhland johann wolfgang von goethe john anthony ciardi john ciardi john donne john dryden john edward masefield john greenleaf whittier john keats john masefield john millington synge john milton john orley allen tate john robinson jeffers john trumbull jonson jose julian marti juan ramon jimenez karlfeldt keats key klopstock li po lindsay longfellow lorca lord george gordon byron louis charles alfred de musset lovelace lowell lucretius luis de gongora y argote macleish mallarme mandelshtam mandelstam marianne craig moore marianne moore marini marino marlowe marti martial marvell masefield masters matthew arnold mayakovski meredith milton moore morris musset neftali ricardo reyes neruda nicholas vachel lindsay noyes omar khayyam osip emilevich mandelstam osip mandelstam ovid pablo neruda palgrave paul verlaine pedro calderon de la barca percy bysshe shelley petrarca petrarch phillis wheatley pierre corneille pindar plath poe pope pound publius ovidius naso publius vergilius maro pushkin racine rainer maria rilke randall jarrell reyes richard lovelace riley rilke rimbaud robert browning robert burns robert frost robert herrick robert lee frost robert lowell robert penn warren robert southey robert traill spence lowell jr. robinson robinson jeffers rostand rupert brooke samuel butler samuel rosenstock samuel taylor coleridge sara teasdale seeger sexton shakespeare shakspere shel silverstein shelby silverstein shelley shevchenko sidney silverstein sir john suckling sir philip sidney sir stephen harold spender sir thomas wyat sir thomas wyatt sir william gilbert sitwell sixth baron byron of rochdale southey spender spenser stephane mallarme stephen spender stephen vincent benet stevens suckling swinburne sylvia plath symons synge t. s. eliot taras grigoryevich shevchenko tasso tate teasdale ted hughes tennyson thespis thomas thomas carew thomas gray thomas moore thomas stearns eliot titus lucretius carus torquato tasso tristan tzara trumbull tzara uhland vachel lindsay vergil verlaine victor hugo victor-marie hugo villon virgil vladimir vladimirovich mayakovski voznesenski w. b. yeats w. h. auden wallace stevens walt whitman walter de la mare walter john de la mare warren watts wheatley whitman whittier wilhelm apollinaris de kostrowitzki william blake william butler yeats william carlos williams william cowper william gilbert william morris william s. gilbert william schwenk gilbert william shakespeare william shakspere william wordsworth williams wordsworth wyat wyatt wylie wystan hugh auden yeats yevgeni aleksandrovich yevtushenko yevgeni yevtushenko yevtushenko young
  • Pronunciation in US: /ˈpoʊət/, /ˈpoʊɪt/, [ˈpʰoʊ̯ɪ̈(ʔ)t̚]

    Pronunciation in UK: /ˈpəʊɪt/

    Synonyms:

    lyricist, writer, dramatist, author, artist, dilettante, rhymer, bard, versifier, maker, poetaster, parodist, lyrist, librettist, odist, balladist, metrist, rhapsodist, rimer, sonnetist,

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