All poet synonyms
po·et
P p noun poet
- author — The author of a piece of writing is the person who wrote it.
- librettist — the writer of a libretto.
- balladeer — a singer of ballads
- balladist — someone who composes or performs ballads
- accompanist — An accompanist is a musician, especially a pianist, who plays one part of a piece of music while someone else sings or plays the main tune.
- ghostwriter — A person whose job it is to write material for someone else who is the named author.
- freelancer — freelance (def 1).
- lyricist — a person who writes the lyrics for songs.
- lyrist — a person who plays the lyre or who sings and accompanies himself or herself on the lyre.
- bard — People sometimes refer to William Shakespeare as the Bard.
- fabler — A writer of fables; a fabulist; a dealer in untruths or falsehoods.
- writer — a person engaged in writing books, articles, stories, etc., especially as an occupation or profession; an author or journalist.
- crooner — A crooner is a male singer who sings sentimental songs, especially the love songs of the 1930s and 1940s.
- harper — James, 1795–1869, and his brothers John, 1797–1875, (Joseph) Wesley, 1801–70, and Fletcher, 1806–77, U.S. printers and publishers.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- minnesinger — one of a class of German lyric poets and singers of the 12th, 13th, and 14th centuries.
- gleeman — (in medieval times) an itinerant singer; minstrel.
- metrist — a person who is skilled in the use of poetic meters.
- wordsmith — an expert in the use of words.
- minstrel — a medieval poet and musician who sang or recited while accompanying himself on a stringed instrument, either as a member of a noble household or as an itinerant troubadour.
- jongleur — (in medieval France and Norman England) an itinerant minstrel or entertainer who sang songs, often of his own composition, and told stories.
- essayist — A person who writes essays, especially as a literary genre.
- biographer — Someone's biographer is a person who writes an account of their life.