poet
A person who writes poems.
Other meanings
A person with a creative or romantic imagination.
Related words
- poetcraft
- poetdom
- poetism
- poetist
- poetwise
- poetaster
- arch-poet
- concrete poet
- cyclic poet
- jazz poet
- Lake poet
- parcel-poet
Example sentences
Word history
From Ancient Greek "ποιητής" (creator, maker, author, poet).
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “poet” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; example sentences are from Tatoeba, credited to their authors above, published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.