poet
a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
How often you will meet it
Rank 1,578 of 71,295 words measured. It occurs 11,542 times across 155,139 chapters — 0.005% of every word in the library.
What it means
noun
- a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
poet in real books
Each sentence below was written by a published author and is taken from a different book in our library. Open one to read the passage it came from, with narration.
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The Pilgrims of Plymouth have not lacked historian and poet.
Pennsylvania Pilgrim, and other poems Part 6 From — Volume I · John Greenleaf Whittier · Chapter 1
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As artist, sculptor, poet, musician, he could not be approached by any living being.
The Mark of the Beast · Sydney Watson · Chapter 1
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This sally, though the poet had evidently brought it upon himself, annoyed him most deeply.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement — No. 474 · Various · Chapter 1
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Thus the poet shows that Odysseus has arrived in Ithaca not a day too soon.
The Odyssey of Homer · 751? BCE-651? BCE Homer · Chapter 1
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The poet was in Arcadia, Phillis was a shepherdess, and the conventional imageries of the pastoral valley were the environment.
Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Phillis - Licia · Martha Foote [Editor] Crow · Chapter 1