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Webster 1913 Edition


Poem

Po′em

,
Noun.
[L.
poëma
, Gr. [GREEK], fr. [GREEK] to make, to compose, to write, especially in verse: cf. F.
poëme
.]
1.
A metrical composition; a composition in verse written in certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme, and characterized by imagination and poetic diction; – contradistinguished from prose;
as, the
poems
of Homer or of Milton
.
2.
A composition, not in verse, of which the language is highly imaginative or impassioned;
as, a prose
poem
; the
poems
of Ossian.

Webster 1828 Edition


Poem

PO'EM

,
Noun.
[L. poema; Gr. to make, to compose songs.]
1.
A metrical composition; a composition in which the verses consist of certain measures, whether in blank verse or in rhyme; as the poems of Homer or of Milton; opposed to prose.
2.
This term is also applied to some compositions in which the language is that of excited imagination; as the poems of Ossian.

Definition 2024


põem

põem

See also: poem and poëm

Portuguese

Verb

põem

  1. Third-person plural (eles, elas, also used with vocês?) present indicative of pôr