Laureate

/ˈlɒɹ.i.ət/ · adjective

Meaning

(sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel..

Definitions by Sense

1. (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
2. (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
3. A graduate of a university.
4. (intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

Example Sentences

To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.

Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,

a learn'd laureate

Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year’s laureates by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.

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• laureates
• laureating
• laureated

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