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SONNETEER
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sonneteer mean?
• SONNETEER (noun)
The noun SONNETEER has 1 sense:
1. a poet who writes sonnets
Familiarity information: SONNETEER used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A poet who writes sonnets
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Hypernyms ("sonneteer" is a kind of...):
poet (a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry))
Derivation:
sonnet (a verse form consisting of 14 lines with a fixed rhyme scheme)
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