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poet (iou)



poet noun. ME.
[Old & mod. French poete from Latin poeta (Plautus) from Greek po(i)etes maker, author, poet, from po(i)ein make, create.]
A person who composes poetry, a writer of poems, an author who writes in verse, esp. one distinguished by special imaginative or creative power, insight, sensibility, and faculty of expression. ME.
H. Belloc He is a very good writer of verse; he is not exactly a poet. fig.: J. Thomson O nightingale! best poet of the grove.
gen. An author, a writer. LME-M18.
An imaginative practitioner of any of the fine arts; any person possessing special powers of imagination or expression. M19.
Daily Chronicle Schumann is a minor poet among musicians.
Phrases & comb.: poet laureate (a) (a title, esp. one conferred by a university, given to) an eminent poet; (b) (with cap. initials) (the title of) a poet appointed as a member of the royal household to write poems for State occasions. poet-laureateship the office or position of poet laureate. Poets' Corner part of the south transept of Westminster Abbey, which contains the graves or monuments of several poets. poet's narcissus the pheasant's eye narcissus, Narcissus poeticus. poet's poet a poet whose poetry is generally considered to appeal chiefly to other poets.
poe'tese noun mannered style of language supposedly characteristic of poets M20.
poethood noun (a) rare poets collectively; (b) the position or status of poet: M19.
poetless adjective L19.
poetling noun (a) a young poet; (b) a petty or inferior poet, a poetaster: L18.
poetship noun the position or function of a poet L18.