laureate
See also: lauréate
English
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for laureate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.
Adjective
laureate (not comparable)
- (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
- John Milton
- To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
- Alexander Pope
- Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.
- 2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt
- Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,
- John Milton
Derived terms
Translations
Noun
laureate (plural laureates)
- (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
- Cleveland
- A learned laureate.
- Cleveland
- A graduate of a university.
Translations
one crowned with laurel
Verb
laureate (third-person singular simple present laureates, present participle laureating, simple past and past participle laureated)
- (intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.
Translations
one crowned with laurel
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Further reading
- laureate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- laureate in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- laureate at OneLook Dictionary Search
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