'POEM' definitions:
Definition of 'poem'
(from WordNet)
noun
A composition written in metrical feet forming rhythmical lines [syn: poem, verse form]
Definition of 'Poem'
From: GCIDE
- Poem \Po"em\, n. [L. po["e]ma, Gr. ?, fr. ? to make, to compose, to write, especially in verse: cf. F. po["e]me.]
- 1. A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; -- contradistinguished from prose; as, the poems of Homer or of Milton. [1913 Webster]
- 2. A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned; as, a prose poem; the poems of Ossian. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'poem'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- alba,
- anacreontic,
- article,
- autograph,
- balada,
- ballad,
- ballade,
- brainchild,
- bucolic,
- canso,
- chanson,
- clerihew,
- composition,
- computer printout,
- copy,
- dirge,
- dithyramb,
- ditty,
- document,
- draft,
- eclogue,
- edited version,
- elegy,
- English sonnet,
- engrossment,
- epic,
- epigram,
- epithalamium,
- epode,
- epopee,
- epopoeia,
- epos,
- essay,
- eyeful,
- fair copy,
- fiction,
- final draft,
- finished version,
- first draft,
- flimsy,
- georgic,
- ghazel,
- haiku,
- holograph,
- Horatian ode,
- idyll,
- Italian sonnet,
- jingle,
- letter,
- limerick,
- literae scriptae,
- literary artefact,
- literary production,
- literature,
- lucubration,
- lyric,
- madrigal,
- manuscript,
- matter,
- monody,
- narrative poem,
- nonfiction,
- nursery rhyme,
- ode,
- opus,
- original,
- palinode,
- paper,
- parchment,
- pastoral,
- pastoral elegy,
- pastorela,
- pastourelle,
- penscript,
- Petrarchan sonnet,
- picture,
- piece,
- piece of writing,
- Pindaric ode,
- play,
- poesy,
- poetry,
- printed matter,
- printout,
- production,
- prothalamium,
- reading matter,
- recension,
- rhapsody,
- rhyme,
- rondeau,
- rondel,
- roundel,
- roundelay,
- rune,
- Sapphic ode,
- satire,
- screed,
- scrip,
- script,
- scrive,
- scroll,
- second draft,
- sestina,
- Shakespearean sonnet,
- sloka,
- song,
- sonnet,
- sonnet sequence,
- tanka,
- tenso,
- tenzone,
- the written word,
- thing of beauty,
- threnody,
- transcript,
- transcription,
- triolet,
- troubadour poem,
- typescript,
- verse,
- verselet,
- versicle,
- version,
- villanelle,
- virelay,
- vision,
- work,
- writing
Acronyms for 'poem'
From: V.E.R.A.
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