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A poet who writes sonnets
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sonneteer
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sonneteer \Son`net*eer"\, n. A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; -- usually in contempt. What woful stuff this madrigal would be In some starved hackney sonneteer or me! --Pope.
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n. a poet who writes sonnets
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n. (context sometimes derogatory English) A writer of sonnets or small poems. vb. To compose sonnets.
Usage examples of sonneteer.
Perennius acre, and it was no vain boast even for the lousiest sonneteer that the Muse had ever farted onto.
On such a young lady he would make handsome settlements, and he would neglect no arrangement for her happiness: in return, he should receive family pleasures and leave behind him that copy of himself which seemed so urgently required of a man-- to the sonneteers of the sixteenth century.