Poe

[ poh ]

/ poʊ /

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noun

Edgar Allan, 1809–49, U.S. poet, short-story writer, and critic.

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Other definitions for Poe (2 of 2)

POE

or P.O.E.

port of embarkation.

port of entry.

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How to use Poe in a sentence

Lewis Carroll, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Edgar Allan Poe, and Vincent van Gogh all likely experienced the condition.
The Seizure Medication That Turns You Into a Poet|Cat Ferguson|September 12, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Madam Speaker, this is America; it is not Burger King,” Poe said.
The Democrats Have Found a New Boogeyman, and It’s Burger King|Tim Mak|August 26, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“Believe only half of what you see and nothing that you hear,” wrote Edgar Allan Poe.
How to Tell When a Scientific Study Is Total B.S.|Russell Saunders|August 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“The designation which we fight for all the time is a hollow designation because there is no backup,” Poe told The Daily Beast.
Exclusive: U.S. Won’t Seize Taliban Ally’s Cash|Eli Lake|February 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST

“There has been not a dime of money frozen or seized from the Haqqani network,” said Poe.
Exclusive: U.S. Won’t Seize Taliban Ally’s Cash|Eli Lake|February 7, 2014|DAILY BEAST
With such a faculty Balzac could not be, like Edgar Poe, merely a narrator of nightmares.
Repertory Of The Comedie Humaine, Complete, A -- Z|Anatole Cerfberr and Jules Franois Christophe
Poe spent the rest of his life combatting mental sickness, poverty and loneliness.
Hallowed Heritage: The Life of Virginia|Dorothy M. Torpey
After the Poe will come two volumes of mine, one of critical articles and the other of poems.
Charles Baudelaire, His Life|Thophile Gautier
You, who love to amuse yourself in all depths, will you not make an excursion into the depths of Edgar Poe?
Charles Baudelaire, His Life|Thophile Gautier
Is Usher described at all when Poe says, “I gazed upon him with a feeling half of pity, half of awe”?
English: Composition and Literature|W. F. (William Franklin) Webster

British Dictionary definitions for Poe (1 of 2)

Poe

/ (pəʊ) /

noun

Edgar Allan. 1809–49, US short-story writer, poet, and critic. Most of his short stories, such as The Fall of the House of Usher (1839) and the Tales of the Grotesque and Arabesque (1840), are about death, decay, and madness. The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1841) is regarded as the first modern detective story

British Dictionary definitions for Poe (2 of 2)

POE

abbreviation for

military port of embarkation

port of entry

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