| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | po·et |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  p   t |
| NOUN: | 1. A writer of poems. 2. One who is especially gifted in the perception and expression of the beautiful or lyrical: “[the naturalist John Burroughs] was the bard of the bird feeder, the poet of the small and homey” (Bill McKibben, Atlantic Monthly April 1995). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French poete, from Latin po ta, from Greek poits, maker, composer, from poiein, to create. See kwei-2 in Appendix I.
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