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Definition of: poet
(pō′it) noun
1. One who writes poems.
2. One especially endowed with imagination, the power of rhythmical expression, and the creative faculty or power of artistic construction. [<OF poete <L poeta <Gk. poiētēs <poieein make]
—po′et·ess noun fem.
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