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poet |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Poet \Po"et\, n. [F. po["e]te, L. po["e]ta, fr Gr ?, fr ? to make Cf {Poem}.] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. --Dryden. {Poet laureate}. See under {Laureate}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: poet n : a writer of poems [syn: {versifier}]
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