poet
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
poet/ˈpəʊɪt/
▶noun a person who writes poems.
■ a person who possesses special powers of imagination or expression.
– origin ME: from OFr. poete, via L. from Gk poētēs, var. of poiētēs ‘maker, poet’.
'poet' also found in these Oxford entries:
Acmeist
- alcaic
- bard
- blatant
- Dantean
- disjecta membra
- -ess
- Goethean
- griot
- Homeric
- Horatian
- laureate
- lyrist
- Miltonic
- Minnesinger
- nod
- Orphic
- palinode
- performance poetry
- Petrarchan
- poetaster
- poetess
- Poet Laureate
- sapphic
- Spenserian
- sprung rhythm
- thespian
- troubadour
- trouvère
- Virgilian
