different between declamation vs poem

English

Etymology

From French déclamation, from Latin d?cl?m?ti?, d?cl?m?ti?nem, from d?cl?m?, d?cl?m?re; see declaim.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?d?kl??me???n/
• Rhymes: -e???n

Noun

declamation (countable and uncountable, plural declamations)

1. The act or art of declaiming; rhetorical delivery; loud speaking in public.

   Synonym: haranguing

   1. The public recitation of speeches as an exercise in schools and colleges.
      • 1873, Horatio Alger, Bound to Rise Chapter V

        His recitations were prompt and correct, and his answers were given with confidence. But perhaps he did himself most credit in declamation. He had always been very fond of that, and though he had never received and scientific instruction in it, he possessed a natural grace and a deep feeling of earnestness which made success easy. He had selected an extract from Webster--the reply to the Hayne--and this was the showpiece of the afternoon. The rest of the declamation was crude enough, but Harry's impressed even the most ignorant of his listeners as superior for a boy of his age.

2. A set or harangue; declamatory discourse.
3. Pretentious rhetorical display, with more sound than sense.

   mere declamation

Related terms

Further reading

• declamation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• declamation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• declamation at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• nematocidal

English

Alternative forms

• poëm (rare or archaic)
• poeme (rare or archaic)

Etymology

From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”). Displaced native Old English l?oþ.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?p????m/, [?p?????m]
• (US) IPA^(key): /?po???m/, /po??m/, [?p?o(??)?m], [?p?o(??)m?], [?p?o(??)m]
• (India) IPA^(key): /?po???m/, [?po(??)?m]
• (Malaysia) IPA^(key): /poj?m/
• Rhymes: -???m, -??m

Noun

poem (plural poems)

1. A literary piece written in verse.
2. A piece of writing in the tradition of poetry, an instance of poetry.
3. A piece of poetic writing, that is with an intensity or depth of expression or inspiration greater than is usual in prose.

Holonyms

• poetry

Derived terms

Related terms

• poet
• poetic
• poetics
• poetry

Translations

Further reading

• poem in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• poem in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• poem at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• mope, pome

Scots

Etymology

From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [pom], [po?m]

Noun

poem (plural poems)

1. poem
   • 1985, John J. Graham, "E Wir ain aald language. Writin ida Shetland dialect", in Manfred Görlach, Focus on Scotland, John Benjamins Publishing Company, page 193.

     Hit wisna till weel trowe da nineteent century at Shetlanders tried der haand at writin ida dialect — maistly poems, wi a antrin story noo an dan.

   • 1991, Chapman, No. 67-70, page 36.

     And Hugh MacDiarmid was and is A Brawli Makar, for as siccan folk hand tae 't as thrugaun as a poem itsel, he daes, an daes he no.

   • 2000, Chapman, No. 95-97, page 64.

     The pseudonym TSL first thocht on uisin stertin oot ti publish his wark wis Thrawn, an he uised this for whit we think micht be his first published poem in a Sooth African paper at haes (for nou) hidden itsel ower again amang the files.

Swedish

Etymology

From Middle French poème, from Latin po?ma, from Ancient Greek ?????? (poí?ma), from ????? (poié?, “I make”).

Noun

poem n

1. poem

Declension

Vilamovian

Noun

poem n

1. poem