Poet : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Poet	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Poet
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
poet n a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Poet \Po"et\, n. [F. po[89]te, L. po[89]ta, fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to make. Cf. {Poem}.] One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven. --Shak. A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. --Dryden. {Poet laureate}. See under {Laureate}.