minstrel

minstrel

noun

Definition of MINSTREL

a person who writes poetry <Edna St. Vincent Millay was unofficially the minstrel of Maine, as her poetry celebrates its coast and countryside>

Synonyms bard, minstrel, muse, poetaster, rhymester (also rimester), versifier

Related Words poetess; poet laureate; scop, troubadour; epigrammatist, epigrammatizer, lyricist, rhymer, sonneteer; rhapsode, rhapsodist