Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Crowned or decorated with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Crowned with
laurel , or with alaurel wreath ;laureate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective crowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory
Etymologies
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Examples
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Wesleyan University ranks higher than the oft-laureled University of Chicago.
Forbes College Rankings: Which Schools Made The Top 12? (PHOTOS) 2010
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Wesleyan University ranks higher than the oft-laureled University of Chicago.
Forbes College Rankings: Which Schools Made The Top 12? (PHOTOS) 2010
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She has been laureled with awards and grants, including the $100,000 Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize from the Poetry Foundation.
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To the average fan reading a box score or charting a fantasy league, the kid was having a laureled rookie season.
Foul Lines Jack McCallum 2006
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The latter considerations were only second to his avarice; for, conscious that there was nothing in his person, conduct, character, or accomplishments, to command respect, he was greedy of power, and was, in his heart, as much a tyrant as any laureled conqueror on record.
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To the average fan reading a box score or charting a fantasy league, the kid was having a laureled rookie season.
Foul Lines Jack McCallum 2006
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The realists involved in this extra-legal gambit included George H.W. Bush, Robert Gates, Caspar Weinberger and the much-laureled man of our current day, Colin Powell, who personally ordered the delivery of 4000 TOW anti-tank missiles to Iran.
The Old American Century: Twenty Years of Realist Foreign Policy 2006
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He took us through into another room, small and completely overwhelmed by a huge wall painting of a laureled Pompey, this time dressed as Jupiter, complete with lightning bolts shooting from his fingers.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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He took us through into another room, small and completely overwhelmed by a huge wall painting of a laureled Pompey, this time dressed as Jupiter, complete with lightning bolts shooting from his fingers.
Imperium Robert Harris 2006
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Holmes, Bryant, Motley, Henry Clay, Dan Webster, and others of the laureled phalanx which has added so great and imperishable a lustre to the literature of the English tongue.
West Indian Fables by James Anthony Froude Explained by J. J. Thomas
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