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# poet

«poet» in Mova's school dictionary: **A person who writes poems** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 3 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

### part of speech

noun (a poet, poets)

### meaning for a pupil

A person who writes poems. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

In English lessons pupils read poets and learn about rhyme, rhythm and imagery; they may be poets themselves when they write poems. Phrases: a famous poet, poet laureate, I'm a poet and I didn't know it (joking rhyme).

### examples

- The poet wrote about the sea and the sky. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/#x1)
- Our class read a poem by a poet from Ireland. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/#x2)
- She wants to be a poet when she grows up. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/#x3)
- The poet read her poems aloud to the school. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/#x4)
- A good poet chooses every word carefully. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/#x5)
- «You're a poet and you didn't know it!» laughed Gran. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/#x6)
- Late in the evening the poet came home. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/#x7)

### note

Countable. Related words: poem (the piece of writing), poetry (poems in general, uncountable), poetic (adjective). Poetess is old-fashioned; poet is used for anyone.

### In the corpora

- [The Mole, who is honest and no poet, says he doesn't think much of it.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/29-willows-ch2-part1-ducks-ditty-and-toad-hall/2/)
- [I'd send Rat, if he wasn't a poet.»](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/books/71-willows-ch12-part2-the-battle-of-toad-hall/30/)
- [Poets paint pictures with words, and they have a few favourite tricks: the simile, the metaphor, personification and alliteration.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/english/46-poetry-simile-metaphor-personification-alliteration/0/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «poet» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/P/poet/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.