Definition of poet

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Poet (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.

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Singsong :: Singsong (n.) Bad singing or poetry.
Literature :: Literature (n.) The class of writings distinguished for beauty of style or expression, as poetry, essays, or history, in distinction from scientific treatises and works which contain positive knowledge; belles-lettres..
Poetical :: Poetical (a.) Expressed in metrical form; exhibiting the imaginative or the rhythmical quality of poetry; as, a poetical composition; poetical prose..
Pegasus :: Pegasus (n.) A winged horse fabled to have sprung from the body of Medusa when she was slain. He is noted for causing, with a blow of his hoof, Hippocrene, the inspiring fountain of the Muses, to spring from Mount Helicon. On this account he is, in modern times, associated with the Muses, and with ideas of poetic inspiration..
Numerous :: Numerous (a.) Consisting of poetic numbers; rhythmical; measured and counted; melodious; musical.
Distich :: Distich (n.) A couple of verses or poetic lines making complete sense; an epigram of two verses.
Romantic :: Romantic (a.) Of or pertaining to the style of the Christian and popular literature of the Middle Ages, as opposed to the classical antique; of the nature of, or appropriate to, that style; as, the romantic school of poets..
Hyaline :: Hyaline (n.) A poetic term for the sea or the atmosphere.
Swan :: Swan (n.) Fig.: An appellation for a sweet singer, or a poet noted for grace and melody; as Shakespeare is called the swan of Avon..
L''envoy :: L'envoy (n.) One or more detached verses at the end of a literary composition, serving to convey the moral, or to address the poem to a particular person; -- orig. employed in old French poetry..
Dactyl :: Dactyl (n.) A poetical foot of three sylables (-- ~ ~), one long followed by two short, or one accented followed by two unaccented; as, L. tegm/n/, E. mer6ciful; -- so called from the similarity of its arrangement to that of the joints of a finger..
Friend :: Friend (n.) One who looks propitiously on a cause, an institution, a project, and the like; a favorer; a promoter; as, a friend to commerce, to poetry, to an institution..
Sing :: Sing (v. t.) To celebrate is song; to give praises to in verse; to relate or rehearse in numbers, verse, or poetry..
Anthological :: Anthological (a.) Pertaining to anthology; consisting of beautiful extracts from different authors, especially the poets..
Erative :: Erative (a.) Pertaining to the Muse Erato who presided over amatory poetry.
Aristophanic :: Aristophanic (a.) Of or pertaining to Aristophanes, the Athenian comic poet..
Poetry :: Poetry (n.) Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry..
Sapphic :: Sapphic (a.) Of or pertaining to Sappho, the Grecian poetess; as, Sapphic odes; Sapphic verse..
Elison :: Elison (n.) The cutting off or suppression of a vowel or syllable, for the sake of meter or euphony; esp., in poetry, the dropping of a final vowel standing before an initial vowel in the following word, when the two words are drawn together..
Number :: Number (n.) That which is regulated by count; poetic measure, as divisions of time or number of syllables; hence, poetry, verse; -- chiefly used in the plural..
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