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laureate /ˈlɒrɪət / /ˈlɔːrɪət/noun1A person who is honoured with an award for outstanding creative or intellectual achievement: a Nobel laureate...- Even though Ireland can boast of two other poets who have been internationally honoured as Nobel laureates, the Monaghan man continues to occupy a special niche in our affections.
- The 15,000 pound prize awarded to the laureate is not to be sneezed at but the chance of working with the London Symphony Orchestra for a year is to dream of.
- To a considerable extent, a tight circle of New York intellectuals, Ivy League stars, Nobel laureates and Oxbridge luminaries replaced him and his cohort.
1.1 short for Poet Laureate.I fear that the million of whatever currency it is dazzles the British literary world to such an extent that the rest of the laureate's author-compatriots often remain quasi-invisible....- A talk among three former U.S. poet laureates, and the current laureate was especially telling.
- She was appointed poet laureate of Illinois in 1968 and has been perhaps more active than many laureates.
adjective literary1Wreathed with laurel as a mark of honour. 1.1(Of a crown or wreath) consisting of laurel. Origin Late Middle English (as an adjective): from Latin laureatus, from laurea 'laurel wreath', from laurus 'laurel'. Rhymes baccalaureate, professoriate |