What does poet mean?

Definitions for poet
ˈpoʊ ɪtpo·et

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. poetnoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. poetnoun

    A person who writes poems.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. POETnoun

    An inventor; an author of fiction; a writer of poems; one who writes in measure.

    Etymology: poete, Fr. poeta, Lat. ποιητὴς.

    The poet ’s eye in a fine frenzy rowling,
    Doth glance from heav’n to earth, from earth to heav’n;
    And, as imagination bodies forth
    The forms of things unknown, the poet ’s pen
    Turns them to shape, and gives to ev’ry thing
    A local habitation and a name. William Shakespeare.

    Our poet ape, who would be thought the chief,
    His works become the frippery of wit,
    From brocage he is grown so bold a thief,
    While we the robb’d despise, and pity it. Ben Jonson.

    ’Tis not vain or fabulous
    What the sage poets taught by the heav’nly muse
    Story’d of old in high immortal verse,
    Of dire chimeras and enchanted isles. John Milton.

    A poet is a maker, as the word signifies; and he who cannot make, that is invent, hath his name for nothing. Dryden.

Wikipedia

  1. POET

    POET LLC is a U.S. biofuel company that specializes in the creation of bioethanol. The privately held corporation, which was originally called Broin Companies, is headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota. In 2007, the Renewable Fuels Association named POET the largest U.S. ethanol producer, creating 1.1 billion US gallons (4,200,000 m3) of fuel per year. POET currently produces 3 billion gallons of ethanol per year, or 19% of all ethanol produced in the United States.POET operates 33 ethanol plants spread across Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Missouri, Ohio, Minnesota, and South Dakota. In 2007, the company received a US$80 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for the creation of a cellulosic ethanol production facility in Emmetsburg, Iowa. A grand opening was held for the facility on September 3, 2014. It is expected to produce 25 million gallons of ethanol per year from corncobs, leaves and husks provided by farmers in and around the area.POET has also collaborated with other companies, including Deere & Co. and Vermeer Company, to develop manufacturing equipment for harvesting corn cobs used in ethanol production. Among its coproducts in the process are distillers grains branded Dakota Gold, Inviz, an asphalt rejuvenator branded Jive, and a corn oil branded Voila.

ChatGPT

  1. poet

    A poet is a person who uses imaginative and expressive language, often in a rhythmic or metrical structure, to create literary works known as poems. Poets often draw on personal experiences, emotions, observations of the world, or abstract concepts and ideas to create a vivid, thoughtful, and profound portrayal in their poems. A poet could write in a variety of forms such as sonnets, limericks, haikus, free verse, etc., and may use techniques like symbolism, metaphor, and rhyme. In broader terms, anyone who is skilled in using language in this way could be considered a poet.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Poetnoun

    one skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer

  2. Etymology: [F. pote, L. pota, fr. Gr. , fr. to make. Cf. Poem.]

Wikidata

  1. Poet

    A poet is a person who writes poetry. A poet's work can be literal, meaning that his work is derived from a specific event, or metaphorical, meaning that his work can take on many meanings and forms. Poets have existed since antiquity, in nearly all languages, and have produced works that vary greatly in different cultures and time periods. Throughout each civilization and language, poets have used various styles that have changed through the course of literary history, resulting in a history of poets as diverse as the literature they have produced. The English word "poet" is derived from the French poète, itself descended from the Latin first-declension masculine noun poeta, meaning "poet". The word "poetry" derives from the Latin feminine noun poetria, meaning not "poetry" but "poetess". French poet Arthur Rimbaud summarized the "poet" by writing: "A poet makes himself a visionary through a long, boundless, and systematized disorganization of all the senses. All forms of love, of suffering, of madness; he searches himself, he exhausts within himself all poisons, and preserves their quintessences. Unspeakable torment, where he will need the greatest faith, a superhuman strength, where he becomes all men: the great invalid, the great criminal, the great accursed—and the Supreme Scientist! For he attains the unknown! Because he has cultivated his soul, already rich, more than anyone! He attains the unknown, and, if demented, he finally loses the understanding of his visions, he will at least have seen them! So what if he is destroyed in his ecstatic flight through things unheard of, unnameable: other horrible workers will come; they will begin at the horizons where the first one has fallen!"

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Poet

    pō′et, n. the author of a poem: one skilled in making poetry: one with a strong imagination:—fem. Pō′etess.—ns. Pō′etaster, a petty poet: a writer of contemptible verses; Pō′etastry.—adjs. Poet′ic, -al, pertaining or suitable to a poet or to poetry: expressed in poetry: marked by poetic language: imaginative.—adv. Poet′ically, in a poetic manner.—n.sing. Poet′ics, the branch of criticism which relates to poetry.—n. Poet′icule, a petty poet.—v.i. Pō′etise, to write as a poet: to make verses.—ns. Pō′et-lau′reate (see Laureate); Pō′etress (Spens.), a poetess; Pō′etry, the art of expressing in melodious words the thoughts which are the creations of feeling and imagination: utterance in song: metrical composition.—Poetic justice, ideal administration of reward and punishment; Poetic license, a departing from strict fact or rule by a poet for the sake of effect. [Fr. poète—L. poeta—Gr. poiētēspoiein, to make.]

The Roycroft Dictionary

  1. poet

    1. A person born with the instinct to poverty. 2. One whose ideas of the beautiful and the sublime get him in jail or Potter's Field. 3. The patron saint of landlords. 4. A worthless, shiftless chap whose songs adorn the libraries of fat shopkeepers and paunchy Philistines one hundred years after the chap has died of malnutrition. 5. A dope-fiend.

Editors Contribution

  1. poet

    a person who express his Imaginative, sincere feelings/thoughts into the lyrics on the paper. A poet may simply be a writer of poetry, or may perform their art to an audience.

    Edgar Albert Guest was an American poet.


    Submitted by anonymous on March 2, 2020  

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Surnames Frequency by Census Records

  1. POET

    According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Poet is ranked #55619 in terms of the most common surnames in America.

    The Poet surname appeared 369 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Poet.

    95.3% or 352 total occurrences were White.
    1.6% or 6 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.

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British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'poet' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4099

  2. Nouns Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'poet' in Nouns Frequency: #1347

Anagrams for poet »

  1. pote

  2. tope

  3. peto

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of poet in Chaldean Numerology is: 6

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of poet in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2

Examples of poet in a Sentence

  1. Rainer Maria Rilke:

    If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches.

  2. Joe Biden:

    California Sen. Kamala Harris need to reform criminal justice, to make sure black mothers feel confident when they send their child, their son, out on the street -- he's going to be safe, we have to recognize that kid wearing the hoodie may very well be the next poet laureate and not a gang-banger.

  3. Samuel McChord Crothers:

    A prose writer gets tired of writing prose, and wants to be a poet. So he begins every line with a capital letter, and keeps on writing prose.

  4. Chase Von:

    “Prolific world acclaimed author and contemporary poet…Arguably one of the best and most recognized poets in the contemporary field beyond any doubt! …[reminiscent of] the great Kahlil Gibran.”

  5. Jessica Donaghy:

    The winners of the 2015 Goodreads Choice Awards encapsulate some of the year's biggest trends in publishing, from a Tumblr poet to a YouTube star's memoir and from one of the fastest selling debut books in publishing history to the return of one of the most beloved authors in America.

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