'Poet' definitions:
Definition of 'poet'
(from WordNet)
noun
A writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
Definition of 'Poet'
From: GCIDE
- Poet \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. [1913 Webster]
- The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- Poet laureate. See under Laureate. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'poet'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- advertising writer,
- annalist,
- arch-poet,
- art critic,
- author,
- authoress,
- ballad maker,
- balladist,
- balladmonger,
- bard,
- beat poet,
- belletrist,
- bibliographer,
- bucoliast,
- coauthor,
- collaborator,
- columnist,
- compiler,
- composer,
- copywriter,
- creative artist,
- creative writer,
- critic,
- dance critic,
- diarist,
- drama critic,
- dramatist,
- elegist,
- encyclopedist,
- epic poet,
- essayist,
- fancier,
- fantasist,
- fantast,
- fili,
- free lance,
- free-lance writer,
- ghost,
- ghostwriter,
- humorist,
- idyllist,
- imaginer,
- imagist,
- inditer,
- inventor,
- jongleur,
- laureate,
- librettist,
- literary artist,
- literary craftsman,
- literary critic,
- literary man,
- litterateur,
- logographer,
- lyricist,
- magazine writer,
- major poet,
- maker,
- man of letters,
- Meistersinger,
- metrist,
- minnesinger,
- minor poet,
- minstrel,
- modernist,
- monographer,
- muse,
- music critic,
- mythicizer,
- mythifier,
- mythmaker,
- mythopoet,
- newspaperman,
- novelettist,
- novelist,
- occasional poet,
- odist,
- pamphleteer,
- Parnassian,
- pastoral poet,
- pastoralist,
- penwoman,
- poet laureate,
- poetaster,
- poetress,
- prose writer,
- reviewer,
- rhapsode,
- rhapsodist,
- rhymer,
- rhymester,
- satirist,
- scenario writer,
- scenarist,
- scop,
- scribe,
- scriptwriter,
- short-story writer,
- skald,
- sonneteer,
- storyteller,
- symbolist,
- technical writer,
- troubadour,
- trouveur,
- trovatore,
- vers libriste,
- vers-librist,
- versemaker,
- versifier,
- word painter,
- wordsmith,
- writer