laureate
English
editPart 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Etymology
editBorrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.
Pronunciation
edit(adjective, noun)
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɒɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɔːɹ.i.ət/
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɔɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.ət/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
(verb)
- (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɒɹ.i.eɪt/, /ˈlɔːɹ.i.eɪt/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɔɹ.i.eɪt/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.eɪt/
Adjective
editlaureate (not comparable)
- (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
- 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
- To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
- 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
- Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.
- 2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt[1]:
- Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,
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Noun
editlaureate (plural laureates)
- (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
- a. 1658, John Cleveland, An Elegy to Ben Johnson:
- a learn'd laureate
- A graduate of a university.
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Verb
editlaureate (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.
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editFurther reading
edit- “laureate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “laureate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- “laureate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
Italian
editEtymology 1
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Latin
editAdjective
editlaureāte
Spanish
editVerb
editlaureate
- second-person singular voseo imperative of laurear combined with te
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