| Definitions | | laureate |
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noun
- One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. A learned laureate - Cleveland
verb (laureat, ing)
- (intransitive): To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.
adjective
- Crowned, or decked, with laurel - Chaucer
- Quotations
- To strew the hearse where Lycid lies. - Milton
- Soft on her lap her son reclines. - Pope
Etymology: From laureatus, from laurea laurel tree, from laureus of laurel, from laurus laurel: compare French lauréat. Compare laurel
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