poet
noun
[ ˈpəʊɪt ]
• a person who writes poems.
Similar:
verse writer,
versifier,
verse-maker,
rhymester,
rhymer,
sonneteer,
lyricist,
lyrist,
elegist,
laureate,
bard,
swan,
troubadour,
balladeer,
rhymist,
metricist,
ballad-monger,
idyllist,
Parnassian,
poeticule,
poetaster,
Origin:
Middle English: from Old French poete, via Latin from Greek poētēs, variant of poiētēs ‘maker, poet’, from poiein ‘create’.
