Poet - definition, pronunciation, transcription

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Amer.  |ˈpəʊət|  American pronunciation of the word poet
Brit.  |ˈpəʊɪt|  British pronunciation of the word poet

noun

- a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

Extra examples

...Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart....

What was meant by the poet?

Pay particular attention to the poet's choice of words.

The poet wrings the last drop of meaning from every word.

The book is a handsome tribute to a great poet.

Many people shared an obscure sense of gratification that [Dylan] Thomas had died young, as a poet should.

A poet will speak at the commencement.

She cribbed a line or two from her favorite poet.

...the poet's works became increasingly didactic after his religious conversion...

He wrote his dissertation on an obscure 16th-century poet.

...in the poet's somewhat affected locution, word order is often reversed and so we have “the sea serene”...

The poet's grave site has become a place of pilgrimage.

Robert Burns was a great Scottish poet.

...a gifted but uncelebrated poet...

...I may not be a great poet, but I'm as good as those versifiers hired by the greeting card companies....

Word forms

noun
singular: poet
plural: poets
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