POETRY
\pˈə͡ʊɪtɹi], \pˈəʊɪtɹi], \p_ˈəʊ_ɪ_t_ɹ_i]\
Definitions of POETRY
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
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The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
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Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.
By Oddity Software
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The art of apprehending and interpreting ideas by the faculty of imagination; the art of idealizing in thought and in expression.
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Imaginative language or composition, whether expressed rhythmically or in prose. Specifically: Metrical composition; verse; rhyme; poems collectively; as, heroic poetry; dramatic poetry; lyric or Pindaric poetry.
By Noah Webster.
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The art of expressing in melodious words the creations of feeling and imagination: utterance in song: metrical composition.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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The art of giving clear and rhythmic expression to ideal forms, which have been conceived in the fantasy with more or less of passion of soul and penetrative insight into reality; any composition, whether in verse or prose, which is at once nobly fervid and vividly imaginative; metrical composition; verse.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The embodiment of high thoughts and pure emotions in a measured musical flow of words; striking thoughts, picturesque situations, and generally the full play of the imagination expressed in metrical compositions; prose composition expressed in the vivid language of the imagination and of the feelings; verse; rhyme; metrical compositions.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
