{
    "term": "poet",
    "partOfSpeech": "noun",
    "ox3000": true,
    "cefr": "b1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "a person who writes poems",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "an internationally renowned poet"
                },
                {
                    "text": "the Romantic poets"
                },
                {
                    "text": "a performance poet *(= who performs poems to an audience)*"
                },
                {
                    "text": "These river banks have inspired poets for many centuries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "the foremost poet of his generation"
                },
                {
                    "text": "She wrote with the freedom characteristic of the other modernist poets."
                }
            ],
            "topics": ["Literature and writing"],
            "collocations": {
                "adjective": ["accomplished", "good", "great"],
                "verb + poet": ["inspire"],
                "poet + verb": ["write something"]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpəʊɪt/",
                "audio": "po/poet/poet__gb_4.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈpəʊət/",
                "audio": "po/poet/poet__us_2.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "Middle English: from Old French poete, via Latin from Greek poētēs, variant of poiētēs ‘maker, poet’, from poiein ‘create’."
}