laureate

See also: lauréate

English

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “laureate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.

Pronunciation

(adjective, noun)

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

  • Audio (Southern England):

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(verb)

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

• Audio (Southern England):

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

Adjective

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,

Translations

one crowned with laurel

• Armenian: դափնեկիր (hy) (dapʻnekir)
• Bulgarian: увенча́н (bg) (uvenčán)
• French: lauréat (fr) m, lauréate (fr) f
• Greek: δαφνοστεφής (el) (dafnostefís)
• Hungarian: koszorús (hu), babérkoszorús (hu)
• Macedonian: у́венчан (úvenčan)
• Portuguese: laureado (pt) m
• Russian: уве́нчанный (ru) (uvénčannyj)
• Spanish: laureado (es), galardonado (es), ganador (es) m
• Swedish: lagerkransad (sv), lagerkrönt

Noun

laureate (plural laureates)

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

Derived terms

• poet laureate
• Nobel laureate

Translations

one crowned with laurel

• Armenian: դափնեկիր (hy) (dapʻnekir)
• Belarusian: лаўрэа́т m (laŭreát), лаўрэа́тка f (laŭreátka)
• Bulgarian: лауреа́т (bg) m (laureát), лауреа́тка f (laureátka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獲獎者 / 获奖者 (zh) (huòjiǎngzhě)

• Czech: nositel (cs) m, nositelka f, laureát (cs) m, laureátka f
• Dutch: laureaat (nl) m, prijswinnaar (nl) m
• Esperanto: laŭreato
• Estonian: laureaat
• Finnish: palkinnon saaja (winner of a prize)
• French: lauréat (fr) m, lauréate (fr) f
• Georgian: ლაურეატი (laureaṭi)
• German: Laureat (de) m, Laureatin (de) f
• Greek: δαφνοστεφής (el) m or f (dafnostefís)
• Hungarian: díjnyertes (hu), kitüntetett (hu), díjazott (hu), díjas (hu)
• Italian: laureato (it) m, laureata (it) f
• Japanese: 受賞者 (じゅしょうしゃ, jushōsha)
• Kazakh: лауреат (laureat)
• Korean: 수상자(受賞者) (ko) (susangja)
• Kyrgyz: лауреат (laureat)
• Latvian: laureāts m
• Lithuanian: laureatas m
• Macedonian: лавро́носец m (lavrónosec), лауреа́т m (laureát), лауреа́тка f (laureátka)
• Polish: laureat (pl) m, laureatka f
• Portuguese: laureado (pt) m
• Russian: лауреа́т (ru) m (laureát), лауреа́тка (ru) f (laureátka)
• Slovak: nositeľ m, nositeľka f, laureát m, laureátka f
• Spanish: laureado (es), galardonado (es)
• Tajik: лауреат (laureat)
• Ukrainian: лауреа́т (uk) m (laureát), лауреа́тка f (laureátka)
• Uzbek: laureat (uz)

Verb

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.

Translations

to honor with a wreath of laurel

• Bulgarian: увенча́вам (bg) impf (uvenčávam), увенча́я pf (uvenčája)
• Macedonian: уве́нчува impf (uvénčuva), у́венча pf (úvenča)
• Portuguese: laurear (pt)
• Russian: венча́ть (ru) impf (venčátʹ), уве́нчивать (ru) impf (uvénčivatʹ), увенча́ть (ru) pf (uvenčátʹ)
• Spanish: laurear (es), galardonar (es)
• Swedish: lagerkransa (sv), lagerkröna

Related terms

• lauraceous
• laurel
• laurestine
• lauriferous

Further reading

• “laureate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “laureate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
• “laureate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.

Italian

Etymology 1

Adjective

laureate

1. feminine plural of laureato

Participle

laureate f pl

1. feminine plural of laureato

Etymology 2

Noun

laureate f

1. plural of laureata

Latin

Adjective

laureāte

1. vocative masculine singular of laureātus

Spanish

Verb

laureate

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