poet laureate

noun

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Recent Examples of poet laureate At Charlie’s, a group of engineers presented me with a wooden plaque naming me the company’s poet laureate. — Claire Stapleton, New Yorker, 18 July 2026 In this new collection, Georgia poet laureate Chelsea Rathburn explores a hardscrabble childhood in Florida and her family of colorful characters including a sometimes-homeless bag lady and a notorious bank robber. — Suzanne Van Atten, AJC.com, 21 June 2026 The next poet laureate will receive a stipend of $6,000 per year. — Anne Gelhaus, Mercury News, 14 June 2026 Mary Swander, a 75-year-old theater director and former state poet laureate, fondly remembers learning to canoe and swim outdoors while growing up near the water. — ABC News, 4 June 2026 See All Example Sentences for poet laureate
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  1. poet
  2. poetaster
  3. bard
  4. muse
  5. rhymester
Noun
  • Biermann, the new documentary film from Jens Meurer (An Impossible Project, Public Enemy, Seaside Special), is a portrait of the outspoken political singer-songwriter and poet Wolf Biermann.
    — Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Aside from his work on screen, the Londoner is an accomplished poet whose work explores themes of masculinity, love, grief and connection.
    — Alex Ritman, Variety, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of poet
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  • Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
    — New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
    — Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
Definition of poetaster
Noun
  • Variations in form and narrative However, many poets, bards, and troubadours experimented with form to create ballads featuring more than four lines in a stanza and different rhyme schemes or meters.
    — René Ostberg, Encyclopedia Britannica, 14 Oct. 2026
  • In that sense, Deutsch, 51, wants to be the bard of Chicago, in part by leading by example.
    — Mark Caro, Chicago Tribune, 14 Oct. 2026
Definition of bard
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  • The music of French actress and singer Jeanne Moreau also served as something of a muse for Zankov.
    — Erin Wisti, Footwear News, 24 Oct. 2026
  • Fine knows her way around the muse well enough to follow, if not blindly, at least a little brainlessly.
    — Hattie Lindert, Pitchfork, 23 Oct. 2026
Definition of muse
Noun
  • By contrast, the French word for scarcity, rareté, has so many acoustic kin that an English rhymester could weep, with engagé, écarté, and retardé leading the pack.
    — Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 23 May 2022
Definition of rhymester

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