POETESS

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A woman poet

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Hypernyms ("poetess" is a kind of...):

poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))

Instance hyponyms:

Edna Millay; Edna Saint Vincent Millay; Millay (United States poet (1892-1950))

Sappho (the Greek lyric poet of Lesbos; much admired although only fragments of her poetry have been preserved (6th century BC))

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