Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction.
- adjective Crowned or decked with laurel as a mark of honor.
- adjective Archaic Made of laurel sprigs, as a wreath or crown.
- noun One honored or awarded a prize for great achievements especially in the arts or sciences.
- noun A poet laureate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put a wreath of laurel upon the head of; crown with laurel, as formerly in conferring a degree in a university.
- To invest with the office of poet laureate.
- noun In some educational institutions in the United States, a degree given to women instead of ‘Bachelor’ and ‘Master’: as, Laureate of Science, etc.
- noun In numismatics, same as
laurel , 5. - Crowned with laurel as a mark of distinction; decked with laurel.
- In numismatical descriptions, wearing a laurel wreath: said of a human head, a bust, etc.: as, the head of the emperor Nero, laureate.—
- noun One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate; an officially appointed or recognized poet.
- noun In the musical conservatories of Paris and Brussels, a pupil who gains the Prix de Rome.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.
- noun One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
- noun A person who has been presented with an award for some distinguished achievement.
- adjective Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
- adjective [Obs.], [Eng.] A poet who has been publicly recognized as the most pre-eminent poet of a country or region.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Crowned, or decked, with
laurel . - noun dated One crowned with
laurel ; apoet laureate - noun A
graduate of auniversity - verb intransitive To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective worthy of the greatest honor or distinction
- noun someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Having a Nobel laureate is NO guarrantee of leadership, control or efficiency.
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First published in the West in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" prompted the Kremlin to expel the Nobel laureate from the Soviet Union and strip him of citizenship in 1974.
'Gulag Archipelago' Re-Issued for Russian Students Richard Boudreaux 2010
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The name of the laureate is engraved on the plate below the figures, and the text REG.
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The name of the laureate is engraved on the plate below the figures, and the text REG.
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Michael Rosen, the children's laureate, is of course somewhere out to the left of Ghengis Khan.
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The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality.
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From this exalted perch, the poet laureate is charged with bringing poetry to the forefront of the American consciousness, as well as playing consultant to the Library of Congress — which includes giving a reading at the beginning of the term and a lecture or reading at end of term, organizing monthly readings and overseeing the Library's poetry fellowships and prizes.
Paid Poet 2008
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From this exalted perch, the poet laureate is charged with bringing poetry to the forefront of the American consciousness, as well as playing consultant to the Library of Congress — which includes giving a reading at the beginning of the term and a lecture or reading at end of term, organizing monthly readings and overseeing the Library's poetry fellowships and prizes.
July 2008 2008
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The former Vice President and Nobel laureate is raising the bar with the goal of total carbon-free wind, solar and geothermal power by 2018.
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Marrying a Nobel laureate is the second best option, according to Borje Johansson, a member of the Nobel committee on physics.
If You Want to Win a Nobel, Pick Your Parents Carefully | Impact Lab 2007
lwg49257925 commented on the word laureate
Who is the noble prize laureates in economic this year?
October 5, 2011