POETESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poetess mean? 

• POETESS (noun)
  The noun POETESS has 1 sense:

1. a woman poet

  Familiarity information: POETESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POETESS (noun)

Sense 1

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))