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Synonyms for poet

Grammar : Noun
Spell : poh-it
Phonetic Transcription : ˈpoʊ ɪt

Top 10 synonyms for poet
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Définition of poet

Origin :
  • early 14c., "a poet, a singer" (c.1200 as a surname), from Old French poete (12c., Modern French poète) and directly from Latin poeta "a poet," from Greek poetes "maker, author, poet," variant of poietes, from poein, poiein "to make, create, compose," from PIE *kwoiwo- "making," from root *kwei- "to pile up, build, make" (cf. Sanskrit cinoti "heaping up, piling up," Old Church Slavonic činu "act, deed, order").
  • Replaced Old English scop (which survives in scoff). Used in 14c., as in classical languages, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature. Poète maudit, "a poet insufficiently appreciated by his contemporaries," literally "cursed poet," attested by 1930, from French (1884, Verlaine). For poet laureate see laureate.
  • noun person who writes expressive, rhythmic verse
Example sentences :
  • A subject was offered him, in which no other poet would have found a theme for the Muse.
  • Extract from : « Biographical Sketches » by Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • I doubt if even the poet ever works just what he means on the mind of his fellow.
  • Extract from : « Weighed and Wanting » by George MacDonald
  • A parting word may, however, be devoted to the poet himself.
  • Extract from : « De Libris: Prose and Verse » by Austin Dobson
  • But ambition is foreign to the Shakespeare-Hamlet nature, so the poet does not employ it.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • The next sonnet puts the poet's feeling as strongly as possible.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • The pomp of Antony's position, too, and his kingly personality pleased our poet.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • And this poet was proud, and vain, and in love with all distinctions.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Let us now turn to "The Tempest," and see how our poet figures in it.
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Now, what is the reason of this right-about-face on the part of the poet?
  • Extract from : « The Man Shakespeare » by Frank Harris
  • Blush, then, Delicacy, that cannot bear the poet's amor omnibus idem!
  • Extract from : « Clarissa, Volume 2 (of 9) » by Samuel Richardson
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