poet
poet [poet poets] BrE [ˈpəʊɪt] NAmE [ˈpoʊət] noun
a person who writes poems
Word Origin:
Middle English: from Old French poete, via Latin from Greek poētēs, variant of poiētēs ‘maker, poet’, from poiein ‘create’.
Example Bank:
•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.
•the Romantic poets
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