Thesaurus: poet

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1. n. One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.
2. n. a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
3. 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.
4. One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular geniusfor metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginativethinker or writer.The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven toearth, from earth to heaven. Shak.A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. Dryden.Poet laureate. See under Laureate.
5. n:100 n. a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)