poetnoun [ C ]
uk/ˈpəʊ.ɪt/us/ˈpoʊ.ət/B1 a person who writes poems
Examples
- Robert Burns is Scotland's most venerated poet.
- Wordsworth is one of Britain's most famous poets.
- symbolist poets
- a minor poet of the 16th century
- What do you think the poet is getting at in these lines?
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Literature
- alliteration
- antihero
- arch-villain
- baddy
- ballad
- bard
- dramatist
- epigram
- hero
- heroine
- iambic
- ingénue
- limerick
- poetry
- prose poem
- prosody
- psalm
- quatrain
- stylistics
- tragicomedy
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People who write for work or pleasure
Examples from literature
- Built in 1600, the bridge got its name from Lord Byron, a famous 19th-century English poet.