early 14c., "a poet, a singer" (c. 1200 as a surname), from Old French poete (12c., Modern French poète) and directly from Latin poeta "a poet," from Greek poetes "maker, author, poet," variant of poietes, from poein, poiein "to make, create, compose," from PIE *kwoiwo- "making," from root *kwei- "to pile up, build, make" (cognates: Sanskrit cinoti "heaping up, piling up," Old Church Slavonic činu "act, deed, order").
Replaced Old English scop (which survives in scoff). Used in 14c., as in classical languages, for all sorts of writers or composers of works of literature. Poète maudit, "a poet insufficiently appreciated by his contemporaries," literally "cursed poet," attested by 1930, from French (1884, Verlaine). For poet laureate see laureate.
实用例句
1. The concept of the Rose continued to inform the poet's work.
玫瑰的概念持续贯穿于诗人的作品中。
来自柯林斯例句
2. At first the eager young poet was a partisan of the Revolution.
起初，那位满腔热忱的年轻诗人是革命的坚定支持者。
来自柯林斯例句
3. He was determined to reinvent himself as a poet and writer.
