Laureate

Adjective

 * 1) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
 * 2) * Geoffrey Chaucer
 * 3) * John Milton
 * To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
 * 1) * Alexander Pope
 * Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.

Noun

 * 1)  One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate
 * 2) A graduate of a university

Verb

 * 1)  To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

Thesaurus
A per se, Meistersinger, Olympic medal winner, Parnassian, ace, arch-poet, award winner, ballad maker, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, boss, bucoliast, champ, champion, chief, commander, crowned with laurel, dean, distinguished, elegist, epic poet, fili, fugleman, genius, head, higher-up, honored, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, leader, librettist, major poet, maker, master, medalist, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, nonpareil, occasional poet, odist, paragon, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, principal, prizeman, prizetaker, prizewinner, prodigy, rhapsode, rhapsodist, ruler, satirist, scop, senior, skald, sonneteer, star, superior, superman, superstar, symbolist, the greatest, the most, top dog, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, virtuoso, world champion, world-record holder

Etymology
From laureatus:, from laurea:, from laureus:, from laurus:. Compare French lauréat:.

Adjective

 * Spanish: ,

Derived terms

 * poet laureate
 * Nobel laureate

Noun

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 * Spanish: ,

Verb

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Related terms

 * lauraceous
 * laurel
 * laurestine
 * lauriferous

Adjective
laureate


 * 1) Feminine plural form of laureato

Noun
laureate