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laureate
/ˈlɔ.ɹi.ət/
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What does laureate mean?
adjective
- Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
noun
- A graduate of a university.
verb
- To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.
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noun
- (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈlɔ.ɹi.ət/
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/ˈlɑɹ.i.ət//ˈlɔ.ɹi.eɪt//ˈlɑɹ.i.eɪt/
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Perhaps a poet laureate could do better, but a poet laureate gets wages, and that is different.
Thus sang the great English laureate, and to the simple folk--the treasure-keepers of the lore of the ages--his words mean much.
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There is a truth in the saying that ten tailors go to make a man; but we must remember also that ten Poets Laureate or ten Astronomers Royal go to make a man, too.
How strangely the shadow of Tragedy hangs over this ill-starred expedition; Louis XVI the projector, Laperouse and de Langle the commanders, Dentrecasteaux and Kermadec the searchers, Andre Chenier the laureate: the breath of the black-robed Fury was upon them all!
While the construction of the Highland roads was in progress, the late Robert Southey, poet laureate, visited the Highlands in company with his friend the engineer, and left on record an interesting account of his visit, in a, manuscript now in the possession of Robert Rawlinson, C.E., to whom we are indebted for the extracts which are made from it in the present volume.