laureate

First attested during the end of the 15th century, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin laureātus, from laurea (“laurel crown, wreath”, a high reward given to poets and later to the triumphant) + -ātus (forming adjectives indicating possession) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). The verb was formed by metanalysis, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French lauréat.

• Hyphenation: lau‧re‧ate

adjective, noun

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

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verb

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒɹ.i.eɪt/, /ˈlɔːɹ.i.eɪt/

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• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔɹ.i.eɪt/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.eɪt/

laureate (not comparable)

1. (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,

laureate (plural laureates)

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

   Synonym: honoree

   • a. 1658, John Cleveland, An Elegy to Ben Johnson:

     a learn'd laureate

   • 2021 October 8, Jon Henley and Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize”, in The Guardian‎^[2]:

     Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year’s laureates by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.

2. A graduate of a university.

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.

• “laureate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “laureate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “laureate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “laureate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

laureate

1. feminine plural of laureato

laureate f pl

1. feminine plural of laureato

laureate f

1. plural of laureata

laureāte

1. vocative masculine singular of laureātus

laureate

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