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SONNETEER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sonneteer mean? 

SONNETEER (noun)
  The noun SONNETEER has 1 sense:

1. a poet who writes sonnetsplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


SONNETEER (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

A poet who writes sonnets

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

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

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

Derivation:

sonnet (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)


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