laureate

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See also: lauréate

English

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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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (laurel tree), from laureus (of laurel), from laurus (laurel). Compare French lauréat.

Pronunciation

(adjective, noun)

  • (UK) IPA(key): /ˈlɒɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɔːɹ.i.ət/
  • (US) IPA(key): /ˈlɔɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.ət/

(verb)

Adjective

laureate (not comparable)

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

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Noun

laureate (plural laureates)

  1. (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
  2. A graduate of a university.

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Verb

laureate (third-person singular simple present laureates, present participle laureating, simple past and past participle laureated)

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

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Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

laureate

  1. feminine plural of laureato

Participle

laureate f pl

  1. feminine plural of laureato

Etymology 2

Noun

laureate f

  1. plural of laureata

Latin

Adjective

laureāte

  1. vocative masculine singular of laureātus

Spanish

Verb

laureate

  1. second-person singular voseo imperative of laurear combined with te