as in poet
a person who writes poetry
I may not be a great poet, but I'm as good as those versifiers hired by the greeting card companies
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Recent Examples of versifier
Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
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Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
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Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
Helen Shaw,
Vulture,
25 Mar. 2022
Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
—
Sarah Vitali,
Harper's magazine,
10 May 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for versifier
Noun
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Gardone Riviera itself is worth a wander, with the eccentric Vittoriale degli Italiani, the former estate of the poet Gabriele D’Annunzio, a short walk from the hotel.
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On the facing page was Gompers’s block print/line drawing of the Tibetan saint and poet Milarepa sitting in a lotus position, a Sierra cup at his feet, and a Campingaz Bleuet stove resting on a boulder.
Noun
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They were published in the North and South, performed in racist minstrel shows and polite parlors, and sung by abolitionists and defenders of enslavement alike.
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And with fiddles, accordions, guitars and her current instrument of choice, the minstrel banjo.
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“Versifier.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/versifier. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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