laureate

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"We are not in politics ... a laureate is a laureate, from whichever country they come from," said Siem.

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  1. adjective Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction: "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag” (James Traub).
  2. adjective Crowned or decked with laurel as a mark of honor.
  3. adjective Archaic Made of laurel sprigs, as a wreath or crown.
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  • "We are not in politics ... a laureate is a laureate, from whichever country they come from," said Siem. —  AllAfrica News: Latest
  • The 73-year-old Nobel laureate was admitted to Delhi's Sir Ganga Ram Hospital Thursday for removing gallstones after he complained of abdominal pain. —  Top Stories - Google News
  • Lós Ángeles: in AmE Làs = Lós lâter praise = BrE lŏrd master låudanum lāughter rhymes with āfter laundrétte laureate * lóriat laurel * lórrel làva volcano BrE = làrva insect lávish cf. slâvish låw legal —  Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en]
  • For a poet-laureate is the King's poet, and it is his duty to make poems on all the great things that may happen to the King. —  English Literature for Boys and Girls
  • For the laureate, his only office is to find virtues in those who have none, and to drink sack for his pains. —  Maid Marian
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  1. Middle English, from Latin laureātus, adorned with laurel, from laurea, crown of laurel, from feminine of laureus, of laurel, from laurus, laurel.

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  1. from Latin laureatus, crowned with laurel, as if past participle of *laureare (later Italian laureare = Portuguese Spanish laurear), from laurea, the laurel-tree, from laureus, of laurel, from laurus, laurel: see laurel.
  2. Formerly also laureat; from Middle English laureate = Old French laureé, French lauréat = Spanish Portuguese laureado = Italian laureato, from Latin laureatus, crowned with laurel: see laureate, v.
 

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