as in poets
a person who writes poetry
a bard best known for a series of love poems to his raven-haired beloved
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Recent Examples of bards
But this award, which was inaugurated in 2023 with a Jesso win, circles the same handful of writers, and country scribes like Jessie Jo Dillon, pop bards like Amy Allen, and reggaeton men-at-arms like Edgar Barrera are just as up next.
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Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.
—Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
Yet Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, among others, insisted that Brown, whose archaic-modern style telescopes entire epochs into a few flinty lines, belongs among the major twentieth-century bards.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 30 Jan. 2026
But there’s nothing slack, or lazy, or subjective, or self-indulgent, about the elaborate verse-craft of those bards.
—Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
Yet Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, among others, insisted that Brown, whose archaic-modern style telescopes entire epochs into a few flinty lines, belongs among the major twentieth-century bards.
—Alex Ross, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for bards
Noun
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After discovering secret letters between two Victorian poets, academics Roland and Maud set out to untangle a literary mystery.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
3 Apr. 2026
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The greatest of coaches, including Indiana’s own John Wooden, would quote Riley, among other poets and writers, in his UCLA practices.—
Joe Rexrode,
New York Times,
2 Apr. 2026
Noun
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The Black characters that appeared on-screen closely resembled the clownish stereotypes popularized by the minstrels.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
25 Mar. 2026
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“Bards.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bards. Accessed 5 Apr. 2026.
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