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Definition of poet - 5 dictionary results

po⋅et

[poh-it]
–noun
1. a person who composes poetry.
2. a person who has the gift of poetic thought, imagination, and creation, together with eloquence of expression.

Origin:
1250–1300; ME poete < L poēta < Gk poiēts poet, lit., maker, equiv. to poiē-, var. s. of poieîn to make + -tēs agent n. suffix


po⋅et⋅less, adjective
po⋅et⋅like, adjective


1. versifier, bard.

poet.

1. poetic.
2. poetical.
3. poetry.
po·et   (pō'ĭt)   
n.  
  1. A writer of poems.
  2. 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).

[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.]

Poet

Po"et\, n. [F. po["e]te, L. po["e]ta, 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. --Shak.

A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. --Dryden.

Poet laureate. See under Laureate.
Language Translation for : poet
Spanish: poeta; poeta, poetisa,
German: der, *die Dichter(in),
Japanese: 詩人

poet 
c.1300, from O.Fr. poete (12c.), from L. poeta "poet, author," from Gk. poetes "maker, author, poet," from poein "to make or compose," from PIE *kwoiwo- "making," from base *qwei- "to make" (cf. Skt. cinoti "heaping up, piling up," O.C.S. cinu "act, deed, order"). Replaced O.E. scop (which survives in scoff). Used in 14c., as in classical langs., for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature.
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