Definitions for sonneteer

sonneteer son·net·eer

Spelling: [son-i-teer]
IPA: /ˌsɒn ɪˈtɪər/

Sonneteer is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 246 anagrams from letters in sonneteer (eeennorst).

Definitions for sonneteer

noun

  1. a composer of sonnets.

verb (used without object)

  1. to compose sonnets; sonnetize.

Origin of sonneteer

1580-90; sonnet + -eer; replacing earlier sonnetier Italian sonnettiere

Examples for sonneteer

Our sonneteer may be said to have borrowed the exclamation from Luther.

I carried up six or eight pails of water from the spring and followed the sonneteer's example.

The sonnet was however the form of composition he preferred, and as a sonneteer he will be remembered.

Here they will find him as a sonneteer proclaiming liberty with scarcely less zeal and power than Milton.

You are as delightful a lyrist as you are a sonneteer, and I could not give you higher praise.

Hanmer, who is generally followed, read 'sonneteer'; but it is doubtful if that term was then in use.

They number about five hundred, ranking him as the most prolific English sonneteer.

As a sonneteer he showed much grace and sweetness, and English poets borrowed freely from him.

The gift bred an alarm in her bosom beyond any induced by the rhyming passion of the sonneteer.

Frank, who had always thought of Mrs. Greenock in the light of a Puritan rather than a sonneteer, gave a sudden choke of laughter.

Word Value for sonneteer
Scrable

0

Words with friends

11

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