- a person who writes poems
- an internationally renowned poet
- the Romantic poets
- a performance poet (= who performs poems to an audience)
Extra ExamplesTopics Literature and writingb1- These river banks have inspired poets for many centuries.
- the foremost poet of his generation
- She wrote with the freedom characteristic of the other modernist poets.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- accomplished
- good
- great
- …
- inspire
- write something
Word OriginMiddle English: from Old French poete, via Latin from Greek poētēs, variant of poiētēs ‘maker, poet’, from poiein ‘create’.Definitions on the go
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