释义
[ poh -it ] SHOW IPA
/ ˈpoʊ ɪt / PHONETIC RESPELLING
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noun a person who composes poetry.
a person who has the gift of poetic thought, imagination, and creation, together with eloquence of expression.
Origin of poet 1250–1300; Middle English poete <Latin poēta <Greek poiētḗs poet, literally, maker, equivalent to poiē-, variant stem of poieîn to make + -tēs agent noun suffix
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OTHER WORDS FROM poet po·et·less, adjective po·et·like, adjective non·po·et, noun Words nearby poet POEMS syndrome, poenology, poep, poepol, poesy, poet , poetaster, poetess, poetic, poeticism, poeticize
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Example sentences from the Web for poet The poet apparently collapsed in the street upon his departure from “The Horse” and died not long after.
The Bars That Made America Great | Nina Strochlic| December 28, 2014| DAILY BEAST
So many were arrested in Leningrad, the poet Anna Akhmatova said, that the city “dangled like an appendage from its prisons….”
When Stalin Met Lady Macbeth | Brian Moynahan| November 9, 2014| DAILY BEAST
And, for that matter, where is our poet who could damn any of them for it?
Election Day Is Scarier Than Halloween | P. J. O’Rourke| November 1, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The West awarded him the Nobel prize for literature in 1987 and America made Brodsky its poet laureate in 1991.
From Moscow to Queens, Down Sergei Dovlatov Way | Daniel Genis| September 15, 2014| DAILY BEAST
My father, for his part, believed the poet had something like supernatural powers.
Stephen King, “Falling,” and My Father’s Poetry | Christopher Dickey| September 14, 2014| DAILY BEAST
The poet Byron's bedroom remains almost as he left it, and on the lawn is the monument to his favorite dog, "Boatswain."
England, Picturesque and Descriptive | Joel Cook
He affirms, That scarce a poet from Homer down to Dryden ever felt his fire diminished merely by his advance in years.
Deformities of Samuel Johnson, Selected from his Works | Anonymous
The year 1841 was brightened by the marriage of Miss Dora Wordsworth, the only surviving daughter of the poet .
Dorothy Wordsworth | Edmund Lee
The poet had touched on some unidentified form of the story, long before, in The Lady of Shalott.
Alfred Tennyson | Andrew Lang
Is it credible that a Clarendon Press editor should be ignorant that ivydoctarum heder prmia frontiumis the emblem of the poet ?
Ephemera Critica | John Churton Collins
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British Dictionary definitions for poet poet sometimes when feminine poetess
noun a person who writes poetry
a person with great imagination and creativity
Word Origin for poet C13: from Latin poēta, from Greek poiētēs maker, poet, from poiein to make
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Words related to poet lyricist, writer, dramatist, author, artist, dilettante, rhymer, bard, versifier, maker, parodist, lyrist, librettist, poetaster, balladist, metrist, rhapsodist, rimer