poet

Word family

po·et /ˈpəʊɪt $ ˈpoʊ-/ W3 noun [countableC]

ALsomeone who writes poems 诗人 → poem, poetry

Examples from the Corpus

poet• Later on a poet with real soul, but now with the Friday sport, here's Tim.• The dreams of nineteenth-century poets polluted the psychic atmosphere of the great boroughs and suburbs of New York.• Use of the name was, in fact, standard for female poets.• It is a chapter commenting on the differences between recent poets and poets of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries.• With his teachers he salvaged from oblivion many of the Swahili poets, notably the Mombasa poet, Bwana Muyaka.• The poet Francis Rose wrote in 1855 of how King Alfred ... his blow-stone blew.• He is so great that we poets who came after have to carry him around on our backs.

Origin poet

(1200-1300) Old French poete, from Latin, from Greek poietes, from poiein; → POEM

Syllable

Corpus

TOEFL BNC: 2613 COCA: 2923

poet

noun

ADJECTIVE | VERB + POET | POET + VERB

ADJECTIVE

➤accomplished, good, great才華橫溢的／偉大的詩人

▸➤distinguished, famous, well-known著名的詩人

▸➤foremost首屈一指的詩人

◇the foremost poet of his generation他所處時代首屈一指的詩人

➤minor二流詩人

▸➤unknown無名的詩人

▸➤aspiring胸懷大志的詩人

▸➤contemporary, modern當代／現代詩人

▸➤epic, lyric史詩／抒情詩詩人

▸➤metaphysical, Modernist, Romantic, etc.玄學派、現代主義、浪漫主義等詩人

➤17th-century, 18th-century, etc. * 17 世紀、18 世紀等詩人

VERB + POET

➤inspire激發詩人靈感

◇These river banks have inspired poets for many centuries.多少世紀以來，這些河岸激發了詩人的靈感。

POET + VERB

➤write sth詩人寫⋯

TOEFL BNC: 2613 COCA: 2923

poet noun
⇨ writer

TOEFL BNC: 2613 COCA: 2923

poet

Poetry and poets: alliteration, bard, conceit...