Poet

• POS: Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

Poet, n. [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.  [1913 Webster]
"The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven."  [1913 Webster]
"A poet is a maker, as the word signifies."  [1913 Webster]

Poet laureate. See under Laureate.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Poet, n. (fem. poetess)
1 a writer of poems.
2 a person possessing high powers of imagination or expression etc.

Idiom

Poet Laureate (in the UK) a poet appointed to write poems for State occasions. Poets' Corner part of Westminster Abbey where several poets are buried or commemorated.

Etymology

ME f. OF poete f. L poeta f. Gk poetes = poietes maker, poet (as POEM)

THESAURUS

Poet

Meistersinger, Parnassian, advertising writer, annalist, arch-poet, art critic, author, authoress, ballad maker, balladist, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, belletrist, bibliographer, bucoliast, coauthor, collaborator, columnist, compiler, composer, copywriter, creative artist, creative writer, critic, dance critic, diarist, drama critic, dramatist, elegist, encyclopedist, epic poet, essayist, fancier, fantasist, fantast, fili, free lance, free-lance writer, ghost, ghostwriter, humorist, idyllist, imaginer, imagist, inditer, inventor, jongleur, laureate, librettist, literary artist, literary craftsman, literary critic, literary man, litterateur, logographer, lyricist, magazine writer, major poet, maker, man of letters, metrist, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, monographer, muse, music critic, mythicizer, mythifier, mythmaker, mythopoet, newspaperman, novelettist, novelist, occasional poet, odist, pamphleteer, pastoral poet, pastoralist, penwoman, poet laureate, poetaster, poetress, prose writer, reviewer, rhapsode, rhapsodist, rhymer, rhymester, satirist, scenario writer, scenarist, scop, scribe, scriptwriter, short-story writer, skald, sonneteer, storyteller, symbolist, technical writer, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, versemaker, versifier, word painter, wordsmith, writer

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Poet

Book

N booklet, writing, work, volume, tome, opuscule, tract, tractate, livret, brochure, libretto, handbook, codex, manual, pamphlet, enchiridion, circular, publication, chap book, part, issue, number livraison, album, portfolio, periodical, serial, magazine, ephemeris, annual, journal, paper, bill, sheet, broadsheet, leaf, leaflet, fly leaf, page, quire, ream, chapter, section, head, article, paragraph, passage, clause, endpapers, frontispiece, cover, binding, folio, quarto, octavo, duodecimo, sextodecimo, octodecimo, encyclopedia, encompilation, library, bibliotheca, press, definitive work, treatise, comprehensive treatise (dissertation), writer, author, litterateur, essayist, journalism, pen, scribbler, the scribbling race, literary hack, Grub-street writer, writer for the press, gentleman of the press, representative of the press, adjective jerker, diaskeaust, ghost, hack writer, ink slinger, publicist, reporter, penny a liner, editor, subeditor, playwright, poet, bookseller, publisher, bibliopole, bibliopolist, librarian, bookstore, bookshop, bookseller's shop, knowledge of books, bibliography, book learning, among the giant fossils of my past, craignez tout d'un auteur en courroux, for authors nobler palms remain, I lived to write and wrote to live, look in thy heart and write, there is no Past so long as Books shall live, the public mind is the creation of the Master-Writ, volumes that I prize above my dukedom.

Poetry

N poetry, poetics, poesy, Muse, Calliope, tuneful Nine, Parnassus, Helicon, Pierides, Pierian spring, versification, rhyming, making verses, prosody, orthometry, poem, epic, epic poem, epopee, epopoea, ode, epode, idyl, lyric, eclogue, pastoral, bucolic, dithyramb, anacreontic, sonnet, roundelay, rondeau, rondo, madrigal, canzonet, cento, monody, elegy, amoebaeum, ghazal, palinode, dramatic poetry, lyric poetry, opera, posy, anthology, disjecta membra poetae song, ballad, lay, love song, drinking song, war song, sea song, lullaby, music, nursery rhymes, doggerel, Hudibrastic verse, prose run mad, macaronics, macaronic verse, leonine verse, runes, canto, stanza, distich, verse, line, couplet, triplet, quatrain, strophe, antistrophe, verse, rhyme, assonance, crambo, meter, measure, foot, numbers, strain, rhythm, accentuation, dactyl, spondee, trochee, anapest, hexameter, pentameter, Alexandrine, anacrusis, antispast, blank verse, ictus, elegiacs, elegiac verse, elegaic meter, elegaic poetry, poet, poet laureate, laureate, bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere, minstrel, minnesinger, meistersinger, improvisatore, versifier, sonneteer, rhymer, rhymist, rhymester, ballad monger, runer, poetaster, genus irritabile vatum, poetic, poetical, lyric, lyrical, tuneful, epic, dithyrambic, metrical, a catalectin, elegiac, iambic, trochaic, anapestic, amoebaeic, Melibean, skaldic, Ionic, Sapphic, Alcaic, Pindaric, a poem round and perfect as a star, Dichtung und Wahrheit, furor poeticus, his virtues formed the magic of his song, I do but sing because I must, I learnt life from the poets, licentia vatum, mutum est pictura poema, O for a muse of fire!, sweet food of sweetly uttered knowledge, the true poem is the poet's mind, Volk der Dichter und Denker, wisdom married to immortal verse.