Sonneteer

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Sonneteer \Son`net*eer"\, v. i.
     To compose sonnets. --Lowell.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Sonneteer \Son`net*eer"\, n.
     A composer of sonnets, or small poems; a small poet; --
     usually in contempt.
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           What woful stuff this madrigal would be
           In some starved hackney sonneteer or me! --Pope.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  sonneteer
       n : a poet who writes sonnets