poet

noun
/ˈpəʊ.ɪt/UK/ˈpoʊ.ət/US/ˈpoː.ɪt/CA

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.

  1. derived from ποιητής
  2. derived from poēta
  3. derived from poete
  4. inherited from poete

Definitions

  1. A person who writes poems.

  2. A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at poet. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at poet. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at poet

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA