poet

Word family  noun poem poet poetry adjective poetic adverb poetically

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po·et /ˈpəʊɪt $ ˈpoʊ-/ ●●● W3 noun [countable]  ALsomeone who writes poems 诗人 → poem, poetry

Examples from the Corpus

poet• Later on a poet with real soul, but now with the Friday sport, here's Tim.• The dreams of nineteenth-century poets polluted the psychic atmosphere of the great boroughs and suburbs of New York.• Use of the name was, in fact, standard for female poets.• It is a chapter commenting on the differences between recent poets and poets of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.• With his teachers he salvaged from oblivion many of the Swahili poets, notably the Mombasa poet, Bwana Muyaka.• The poet Francis Rose wrote in 1855 of how King Alfred ... his blow-stone blew.• He is so great that we poets who came after have to carry him around on our backs.Origin poet (1200-1300) Old French poete, from Latin, from Greek poietes, from poiein; → POEM

po·et nounChineseSyllable  

someone who Corpus poems writes

poet
po‧et W3 /ˈpəʊət, ˈpəʊɪt $ ˈpoʊ-/ noun [countable]someone who writes poems ⇨ poem, poetry
     

THESAURUS

   ▪ writer someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation. | a writer for the Independent on Sunday magazine | I always wanted to be a writer.
   ▪ author someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie. | The author will be signing copies of his book. | He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’.
   ▪ novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists. | the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland
   ▪ poet someone who writes poems: a class studying the works of modern American poets
   ▪ playwright someone who writes plays: Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in English history.
   ▪ dramatist someone who writes plays - used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: the great French dramatist, Moliere
   ▪ scriptwriter (also screenwriter) someone who writes plays for films or television: Three or four scriptwriters work on the show.
   ▪ blogger someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: a travel blogger | a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English

poetBrE /ˈpəʊɪt/ 🔊NAmE /ˈpoʊət/ 🔊 nouna person who writes poems 诗人