From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishpoetpo‧et /ˈpəʊɪt $ ˈpoʊ-/ ●●● W3 noun [countable] ALsomeone who writes poems → poem, poetry
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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 