Definitions for poetesses

poetesses po·et·ess

Spelling: [poh-i-tis]
IPA: /ˈpoʊ ɪ tɪs/

Poetesses is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in poetesses (eeeopssst).

Definitions for poetesses

noun

  1. a woman who writes poetry.

Origin of poetesses

First recorded in 1520-30; poet + -ess

Examples for poetesses

The poetess was born at Eyam in Derbyshire, where her father was then the Rector.

Gulnare was represented by a girl with the body of a Peri and the soul of a poetess.

"You are decking yourself in borrowed feathers, poetess," replied he, laughing.

How, at his age, could he see the distinction between the poetess and the Woman?

But it was not her religion which supplied the poetess with this pretty fancy.

"I think our Aggie is going to be a poetess," said Tess, to Ruth, secretly.

After Ansaldo's death, we hear nothing more about the poetess.

The lines of Mrs Sigourney, the American poetess, please me most.

Is the quintessential Afghan woman Nila, the dramatic Kabul socialite turned Parisian poetess?

But a poetess must have experienced all feelings, or she could not describe them.

Word Value for poetesses
Scrable

9

Words with friends

10

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