POETRY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poetry mean? 

• POETRY (noun)
  The noun POETRY has 2 senses:

1. literature in metrical form
2. any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

  Familiarity information: POETRY used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POETRY (noun)

Meaning:

Literature in metrical form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

poesy; poetry; verse

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

genre; literary genre; writing style (a style of expressing yourself in writing)

Domain member category:

hush; still; stillness ((poetic) tranquil silence)

sonnet (compose a sonnet)

sonnet (praise in a sonnet)

scan (conform to a metrical pattern)

darkling ((poetic) occurring in the dark or night)

orient ((poetic) eastern)

stilly ((poetic) still or calm)

scrivened (copied in handwriting)

lyric (of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way))

sweet; sweetly (in an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly'))

elegise; elegize (compose an elegy)

spondaise; spondaize (make spondaic)

dolor; dolour ((poetry) painful grief)

Erin (an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry)

lyric (write lyrics for (a song))

relyric (write new lyrics for (a song))

rhyme; rime (compose rhymes)

tag (supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes)

alliterate (use alliteration as a form of poetry)

poetise; poetize; verse; versify (compose verses or put into verse)

metrify (compose in poetic meter)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poetry"):

epos (a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme)

epic poetry; heroic poetry (poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero)

Meaning:

Any communication resembling poetry in beauty or the evocation of feeling

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

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

expressive style; style (a way of expressing something (in language or art or music etc.) that is characteristic of a particular person or group of people or period)