Bard vs. Poet

Bardnoun

A professional poet and singer, like among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

Bardnoun

(by extension) A poet.

Bardnoun

A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. (Often in the plural.)

Bardnoun

Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

Bardnoun

(cooking) A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

Bardnoun

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

Bardnoun

Specifically, Peruvian bark.

Bardverb

To cover a horse in defensive armor.

Bardverb

(cooking) To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

Bardnoun

A professional poet and singer, as among the ancient Celts, whose occupation was to compose and sing verses in honor of the heroic achievements of princes and brave men.

Bardnoun

Hence: A poet; as, the bard of Avon.

Bardnoun

A piece of defensive (or, sometimes, ornamental) armor for a horse's neck, breast, and flanks; a barb. [Often in the pl.]

Bardnoun

Defensive armor formerly worn by a man at arms.

Bardnoun

A thin slice of fat bacon used to cover any meat or game.

Bardnoun

The exterior covering of the trunk and branches of a tree; the rind.

Bardnoun

Specifically, Peruvian bark.

Bardverb

To cover (meat or game) with a thin slice of fat bacon.

Bardnoun

a lyric poet

Bardnoun

an ornamental caparison for a horse

Bardverb

put a caparison on;

Bardnoun

a poet, traditionally one reciting epics and associated with a particular oral tradition

Bardnoun

Shakespeare.

Bardnoun

the winner of a prize for Welsh verse at an Eisteddfod

Bardnoun

a rasher of fat bacon placed on meat or game before roasting.

Bardverb

cover (meat or game) with rashers of fat bacon

Bard

In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or noble) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. Originally bards were a specific lower class of poet, contrasting with the higher rank known as fili in Ireland and Highland Scotland.

Poetnoun

A person who writes poems.

Poetnoun

A person with a creative or romantic imagination.

Poetnoun

One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an imaginative thinker or writer.

Poetnoun

a writer of poems (the term is usually reserved for writers of good poetry)

Poet

A poet is a person who creates poetry. Poets may describe themselves as such or be described as such by others.