Yeats
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- proper noun
- /jeɪts/
- Literature
- My friend Brian Miller wrote a whole album's worth of music to Yeats's poems, called Yeats Is Greats.
- Yeats and Eliot
- William Butler Yeats
- W.B. Yeats
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- The great Irish poet William Butler Yeats said an aged man is but a paltry thing.
Examples
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The Birth of Modernism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, W. B. Yeats, and the Occult.
Academic text (1993) -
I've been thinking about what Yeats said.
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No, it was about Yeats, when he was a young man.
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Huh? - Good stuff, Yeats, huh? - Yes.
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Is that William Butler Yeats?
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The great Irish poet William Butler Yeats said an aged man is but a paltry thing.
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The fairy child sings this in Yeats's play, The Land of Heart's Desire.
Academic text (1990) -
In 1904, poet William Butler Yeats and writer Lady Gregory forge their part of this new Irish world.
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MacNeice had arrived at his chapter on Yeats's masterpieces, The Winding Stair and Other Poems and The Tower.
Academic text (2015) -
William Butler Yeats was known for his profound understanding of the human experience.
Synonyms
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5.8
An Irish poet and playwright who wrote famous poems and plays and helped start the modern literary movement
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6.3
An Irish poet and writer of plays who helped revive Irish literature in the early 1900s
Surface Forms
Etymology
Yeats comes from an old English word yate, the same as gate, which means 'gate' or 'entrance', so the name probably began for a family who lived by a gate.