poetry
Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
Noun 3 meanings
Literature composed in verse or language exhibiting conscious attention to patterns and rhythm.
A poet's literary production.
An artistic quality that appeals to or evokes the emotions, in any medium; something having such a quality.
“That 'Swan Lake' choreography is poetry in motion, fitting the musical poetry of Tchaikovski's divine score well beyond the literary inspiration.”
Etymology
From Middle English poetrye, poetrie, a borrowing from Old French pöeterie, pöetrie, from Medieval Latin poētria, from poēta (“poet”), from Ancient Greek ποιητής (poiētḗs, “poet; author; maker”). Displaced native Old English lēoþcræft.
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POETRY at a glance
POETRY has 6 letters and scores 11 points in Scrabble (P 3 + O 1 + E 1 + T 1 + R 1 + Y 4) and 11 in Words With Friends, before board bonuses. It ranks #3,576 by how often it appears in everyday English. It is valid in ENABLE, NWL2023, Collins/SOWPODS.
Rhymes with poetry
All rhymes- COUNTRY12
- INDUSTRY12
- ENTRY8
- MINISTRY13
- CHEMISTRY19
- INFANTRY14
- GEOMETRY14
- REGISTRY12
- FORESTRY14
- PSYCHIATRY23
- POULTRY12
- PASTRY11
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