POESY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does poesy mean? 

• POESY (noun)
  The noun POESY has 1 sense:

1. literature in metrical form

  Familiarity information: POESY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• POESY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Literature in metrical form

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

poesy; poetry; verse

Hypernyms ("poesy" is a kind of...):

genre; literary genre; writing style (a style of expressing yourself in writing)

Domain member category:

sweet; sweetly (in an affectionate or loving manner ('sweet' is sometimes a poetic or informal variant of 'sweetly'))

hush; still; stillness ((poetic) tranquil silence)

apace ((poetic, literary) quickly)

lyric (of or relating to a category of poetry that expresses emotion (often in a songlike way))

scrivened (copied in handwriting)

stilly ((poetic) still or calm)

darkling ((poetic) occurring in the dark or night)

scan (conform to a metrical pattern)

sonnet (praise in a sonnet)

sonnet (compose a sonnet)

elegise; elegize (compose an elegy)

spondaise; spondaize (make spondaic)

metrify (compose in poetic meter)

poetise; poetize; verse; versify (compose verses or put into verse)

alliterate (use alliteration as a form of poetry)

tag (supply (blank verse or prose) with rhymes)

rhyme; rime (compose rhymes)

relyric (write new lyrics for (a song))

lyric (write lyrics for (a song))

Erin (an early name of Ireland that is now used in poetry)

dolor; dolour ((poetry) painful grief)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "poesy"):

epos (a body of poetry that conveys the traditions of a society by treating some epic theme)

epic poetry; heroic poetry (poetry celebrating the deeds of some hero)

 Context examples 

Poesy does not prevent one from being practical—at least it doesn't prevent me.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

She had never been tormented by womanhood, and she had lived in a dreamland of Tennysonian poesy, dense even to the full significance of that delicate master's delicate allusions to the grossnesses that intrude upon the relations of queens and knights.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)