单词 | poet |
释义 | poetpo‧et /ˈpəʊɪt $ ˈpoʊ-/ ●●● W3 noun [countable] ![]() ![]() WORD ORIGINpoet ExamplesOrigin: 1200-1300 Old French poete, from Latin, from Greek poietes, from poiein; ➔ POEMEXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS Thesaurus
THESAURUS► writer Collocations someone who writes books, stories, or articles in as a job: · Greene was one of the finest writers of his generation.· a writer for the Independent on Sunday magazine· I always wanted to be a writer. ► author someone who writes books, especially works of literature, or someone who wrote a particular book: · Among the guests was the author Salman Rushdie.· The author will be signing copies of his book.· He was the author of ‘How to Win Friends and Influence People’. ► novelist someone who writes books about imaginary people or events: · Charles Dickens was one of the greatest 19th century novelists.· the romantic novelist Barbara Cartland ► poet someone who writes poems: · a class studying the works of modern American poets ► playwright someone who writes plays: · Shakespeare was the greatest playwright in English history. ► dramatist someone who writes plays – used especially in literary writing, about playwrights in the past: · the great French dramatist, Moliere ► scriptwriter (also screenwriter) someone who writes plays for films or television: · Three or four scriptwriters work on the show. ► blogger someone who regularly writes about a particular subject on their own website: · a travel blogger· a blogger who writes about the differences between American and British English WORD SETS► Literatureacrostic, nounadapt, verballiteration, nounanagram, nounannual, nounanthology, nounantihero, nounapologia, nounappendix, nounassonance, nounauthorship, nounautobiography, nounballad, nounbard, nounbathos, nounbiography, nounblank verse, nounbowdlerize, verbburlesque, nouncaesura, nouncameo, nouncanon, nouncanto, nouncaricature, nounchapter, nouncharacterization, nouncitation, nounclimax, nounclimax, verbcoda, nouncollected, adjectiveconceit, nouncorpus, nouncouplet, nouncritique, noundactyl, noundeclamatory, adjectivedeconstruction, noundense, adjectivedevice, noundialogue, noundiarist, noundiction, noundigest, noundoggerel, noundraft, noundraft, verbdrama, noundub, nounelegy, nounending, nounepic, adjectiveepigram, nounepilogue, nounepistolary, adjectiveepitaph, nounessay, nounessayist, nouneulogy, nounexegesis, nounfable, nounfairy tale, nounfantasy, nounfiction, nounfictional, adjectivefirst edition, nounfirst person, nounflashback, nounflorid, adjectiveflowery, adjectivefolk, adjectiveforeword, nounformulaic, adjectivefree verse, nounghost story, nounGothic, adjectivegrandiloquent, adjectivehaiku, nounheroic, adjectiveheroic couplet, nounhexameter, nounhumorist, nounhyperbole, nouniamb, nouniambic pentameter, nounimage, nounimagery, nouninformal, adjectiveingénue, nouninstalment, nounirony, nounjournal, nounlay, nounlimerick, nounlit., literary, adjectiveliterature, nounlyric, adjectivelyric, nounlyrical, adjectivelyricism, nounman of letters, nounmanuscript, nounmetaphor, nounmetaphorical, adjectivemetre, nounmetrical, adjectivemonologue, nounnarrative, nounnarrator, nounnaturalism, nounnaturalistic, adjectivenom de plume, nounnovel, nounnovelist, nounnovella, nounnursery rhyme, nounode, nounonomatopoeia, nounpadding, nounpaean, nounparagraph, nounparaphrase, verbparaphrase, nounparenthetical, adjectivepassage, nounpathetic fallacy, nounpen name, nounpentameter, nounperiphrasis, nounperoration, nounpicaresque, adjectiveplaywright, nounplot, nounpoem, nounpoet, nounpoetess, nounpoetic, adjectivepoetic licence, nounpoet laureate, nounpoetry, nounpolemic, nounpolemical, adjectivepotboiler, nounprécis, nounpreface, nounprefatory, adjectiveprologue, nounprose, nounprosody, nounprotagonist, nounpseudonym, nounpulp, nounquatrain, nounquotation, nounquote, verbreading, nounrecite, verbrendition, nounrevise, verbrevision, nounrhetoric, nounrhyme, nounrhyme, verbromance, nounsaga, nounsatire, nounsatirist, nounscience fiction, nounscribbler, nounscript, nounself-portrait, nounSF, Shakespearean, adjectiveshort story, nounsimile, nounsoliloquy, nounsonnet, nounstanza, nounstilted, adjectivestory, nounstream of consciousness, nounstylist, nounsubplot, nounsubtitle, nounsuperhero, nounsurrealism, nounsurrealistic, adjectivesynopsis, nountailpiece, nountale, nountalking book, nountearjerker, nountext, nountextual, adjectivetexture, nountheme, nounthriller, nountitle, nountragedian, nountragedy, nountragic, adjectivetragicomedy, nountrope, nounturgid, adjectiveunabridged, adjectiveverse, nounvignette, nounvolume, nounweepy, nounwell-turned, adjectivewhodunit, nounwriter, nounwriter's block, nounyarn, noun COLLOCATIONS FROM THE CORPUSADJECTIVE► famous Word family· He was already a famous poet and playwright, but he was a family man, too.· Susskind Eikhl is a famous poet. ► great· But in the principality last week he was hailed as a greater poet than Dylan Thomas.· The myths as we have them are the creation of great poets.· But one great poet is perhaps enough in any family, even the most civilized.· He is so great that we poets who came after have to carry him around on our backs.· The great poets then start the recitation of their work.· The great modernist poet Wallace Stevens supported himself as an executive at a Hartford insurance company.· The little village of Grasemere has inspired many of our great artists and poets including Wordsworth, Coleridge and Ruskin.· Thomas Aquinas, and its greatest poet, Dante Alighieri. ► romantic· The romantic poets were interested in extremes of emotion, and there were frequent undertones in their writings of sadism and death.· The same note of emotional catharsis was sounded by the Romantic poets in general, after the desiccation of late neoclassicism.· Or the works of Charles Dickens sandwiched between a well-thumbed leather-bound edition of the Romantic poets and three volumes of philosophy.· Like the legendary biographies of the Romantic poets, realism is at best a by-product of art and not its raisond'être.· Born in 1818, he had been educated under the supervision of the liberally inclined Romantic poet Vasilii Zhukovskii. ► young· The others present were young poets whose work he liked.· The latter was more than anything else a showcase for younger expressionist poets like Georg Heym.· What inspired that rebellious young poet called Rimbaud? NOUN► laureate· Later he became poet laureate of the United States.· Morris wrote endlessly and was even offered the post of poet laureate. VERB► write· In this context, what goes on outside, what is actually written by poets and novelists, is of minor interest.· It is only when Alvarez starts to write about poetry and poets that the book comes to life. WORD FAMILYnounpoempoetpoetryadjectivepoeticadverbpoetically someone who writes poems → poem, poetry |
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