Synonyms for poet
ˈpoʊ ɪtpo·et

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1. poetnoun

   Synonyms:
   poetess

2. poetnoun

   A person who writes poems.

   Synonyms:
   poetess

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1. poet

   Synonyms:
   bard, singer, rhymer, rhymster, author of poems

Princeton's WordNet

1. poetnoun

   a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

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1. • Writer

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1. poetnoun

   Synonyms:
   bard, author of poems

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1. poetnoun

   Synonyms:
   bard, laureate, versifier, rhymster, poetaster, troubadour, jongleur

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1. List of paraphrases for "poet":

   shaer, al-shaer, poets, poetry, bard, poetic

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How to use poet in a sentence?

1. Wallace Stevens:

   The poet is the priest of the invisible.

2. Marcus Tullius Cicero:

   Democritus maintains that there can be no great poet without a spite of madness.

3. Thomas Babington Macaulay, 1st Baron Macaulay:

   Language, the machine of the poet, is best fitted for his purpose in its rudest state. Nations, like individuals, first perceive, and then abstract. They advance from particular images to general terms. Hence the vocabulary of an enlightened society is philosophical, that of a half-civilized people is poetical.

4. Tim Considine:

   I went home, and I developed the pictures, and. . . I loved Getty Images, so I went back the next night and went up the stairs [ to Mitchell’s dressing room ], knocked on the door and introduced Tim Considine. I ’d made 11-by-14 prints, and Joni Mitchell seemed to like them. And I felt 9 feet tall that this brilliant singer-songwriter, poet and painter liked Getty Images. And then David Crosby came in, and Joni Mitchell handed them to David Crosby. And David Crosby took one look at them and said, ‘ Needs more contrast. ’.

5. Maria Yaminne:

   He's a poet, a photographer, he's not aggressive. He wants to build up Venezuela, not destroy it.