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Poet

Poet Meaning & Definition
Poet Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Poet?

[n] A writer of poems.

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Poet In Webster's Dictionary

\Po"et\, n. [F. po["e]te, L. po["e]ta, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to make. Cf. {Poem}.] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. --Dryden. {Poet laureate}. See under {Laureate}.

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