laureate
Americannoun
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a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award.
a Nobel laureate.
adjective
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deserving or having special recognition for achievement, as for poetry (often used immediately after the noun that is modified).
poet laureate; conjurer laureate.
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having special distinction or recognition in a field.
the laureate men of science.
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crowned or decked with laurel as a mark of honor.
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consisting of or resembling laurel, as a wreath or crown.
adjective
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literary crowned with laurel leaves as a sign of honour
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archaic made of laurel
noun
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short for poet laureate
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a person honoured with an award for art or science
a Nobel laureate
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rare a person honoured with the laurel crown or wreath
Other Word Forms
- laureateship noun
- laureation noun
Etymology
Origin of laureate
1350–1400; Middle English; < Latin laureātus crowned with laurel, equivalent to laure ( us ) of laurel ( laur ( us ) bay tree + -eus -eous ) + -ātus -ate 1
Example Sentences
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Jayawardhana will take the helm of the 134-year-old campus — which has produced numerous scientific breakthroughs and dozens of Nobel laureates — on July 1.
From Los Angeles Times
The 1998 Copyright Term Extension Act provided no significant incentive to create new works according to 17 economists, including five Nobel laureates, who submitted a brief to the Supreme Court on the matter.
From Los Angeles Times
Bangladesh's interim government, led by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Muhammad Yunus, has not commented.
From Barron's
Earlier this month, Nobel Peace laureate and human rights campaigner Narges Mohammadi was arrested, along with around 40 activists, during a memorial in the city of Mashhad for a lawyer who activists say was slain.
Bangladesh's interim government, led by Nobel laureate Muhammad Yunus, said there was "no place for such violence in the new Bangladesh", promising that no one involved in the killing would be spared.
From BBC
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