poet

poet

noun

Definition of POET

a person who writes poetry <Emily Dickinson is famous as the poet who rarely left the house but often journeyed to the depths of the human heart>

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

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