poet

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

2. 2
   noun

   A person who writes poems.

3. 3
   noun

   A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

Etymology

From Middle English poete, from Old French poete, from Latin poēta (“poet, author”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “creator, maker, author, poet”), from ποιέω (poiéō, “to make, compose”). Displaced native Old English sċop. Doublet of piyyut.