Definition of poets Poets
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Wiktionary 
- poets (Noun)
Plural of poet.
Part of speech
🔤- poets, noun, plural of poet.
WordNet
NounPlural: poets |
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| poet - a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry) | ||
| author, writer writes (books or stories or articles or the like) professionally (for pay) | ||
| bard an ornamental caparison for a horse | ||
| elegist the author of a mournful poem lamenting the dead | ||
| odist a poet who writes odes | ||
| poetess a woman poet | ||
| poet laureate the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain; "the poet laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions" | ||
| poet laureate the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great Britain; "the poet laureate is expected to provide poems for great national occasions" | ||
| sonneteer a poet who writes sonnets | ||
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Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- poet (n.)
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
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A person who writes poems. -
poet
A man who writes poems.
Chambers DictionaryChamber's 20th Century Dictionary 📕
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poet
pō′et, n. the author of a poem: one skilled in making poetry: one with a strong imagination:—fem. Pō′etess.—ns. Pō′etaster, a petty poet: a writer of contemptible verses; Pō′etastry.—adjs. Poet′ic, -al, pertaining or suitable to a poet or to poetry: expressed in poetry: marked by poetic language: imaginative.—adv. Poet′ically, in a poetic manner.—n.sing. Poet′ics, the branch of criticism which relates to poetry.—n. Poet′icule, a petty poet.—v.i. Pō′etise, to write as a poet: to make verses.—ns. Pō′et-lau′reate (see Laureate); Pō′etress (Spens.), a poetess; Pō′etry, the art of expressing in melodious words the thoughts which are the creations of feeling and imagination: utterance in song: metrical composition.—Poetic justice, ideal administration of reward and punishment; Poetic license, a departing from strict fact or rule by a poet for the sake of effect. [Fr. poète—L. poeta—Gr. poiētēs—poiein, to make.]
Wikipedia 
- A poet is someone who writes poetry.
Part of speech
🔤- poet, noun, singular of poets.
