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sonneteer

sonneteer

9.5
A person who writes a short poem of fourteen lines
  • noun
  • /ˌsɒnɪˈtɪr/
  • Literature
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  • The renowned sonneteer captivated audiences with his beautiful verses about love and nature.

Examples

  • Many consider Shakespeare the greatest sonneteer for his masterful use of language in his 154 sonnets.

  • So fledgling sonneteers sink into hate.

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  • Not Oxford, Bacon, or some other bloke; the sonneteer, the playwright, and the soul, the bell that down the centuries does toll, was you, sweet.

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  • In her latest collection, the sonneteer explores themes of desire and loss through intricate rhymes.

Synonyms

poet
vssonneteer
567 2.2

A person who writes words in a musical way that creates images to show feelings

is more specific meaning someone who writes only sonnets

Surface Forms

sonneteer singular
sonneteers plural

Morphology

sonneteer = sonnet (transparent) = sonnet + eer

Clearly formed from 'sonnet' + the agentive suffix '-eer', meaning 'person who composes sonnets', a standard and guessable formation.

Etymology

Sonneteer begins with sonnet, which comes from Italian sonetto meaning 'little song' and from Latin sonus meaning 'sound'. The last part -eer means a person who does something, so a sonneteer is someone who writes those short 'songs' — the short poems we call sonnets.