LAUREATE

laureate

(adjective) worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; “The nation’s pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag”- James Traub

laureate

(noun) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

laureate (not comparable)

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

Noun

laureate (plural laureates)

(dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.

A graduate of a university.

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.

Source: Wiktionary

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Lau"re*ate, a. Etym: [L. laureatus, fr. laurea laurel tree, fr. laureus of laurel, fr. laurus laurel: cf. F. lauréat. Cf. Laurel.]

Definition: Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton. Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope. Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] (b) Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose business was to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet officially distinguished by such honorary title, the office being a sinecure. It is said this title was first given in the time of Edward IV. [Eng.]

Lau"re*ate, n.

Definition: One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. "A learned laureate." Cleveland.

Lau"re*ate, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Laureated; p. pr. & vb. n. Laureating.]

Definition: To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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