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Definitions: Laureate |
LaureateAdjective1. Worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag"- James Traub. Noun1. Someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "laureate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1380. (references) |
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Satire | LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime. Source: Devil's Dictionary. |
Literature | Laureate Poets so called from an ancient custom in our universities of presenting a laurel wreath to graduates in rhetoric and poetry. Young aspirants were wreathed with laurels in berry (orné de baies de laurier). Authors are still so "crowned" in France. The poets laureate of the two last centuries have been- Ben Jonson, 1615, appointed by King James. Sir William Davenant. 1637. John Dryden, 1670. Thomas Shadwell, 1688. Nahum Tate, 1692. Nicholas Rowe, 1715. Laurence Eusden, 1718. Colley Cibber, 1730. William Whitehead, 1757 Thomas Warton, 1783. Henry James Pye, 1790. Robert Southey, 1813. William Wordsworth, 1844. Alfred Tennyson, 1850. Alfred Austin, 1896. Six or seven of these are almost unknown, and their productions are seldom read. Source: Brewer's Dictionary. |
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| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Nobility | Peer, peerage; house of lords, house of peers; lords, lords temporal and spiritual; noblesse; noble, nobleman; lord, lordling; grandee, magnifico, hidalgo; daimio, daimyo, samurai, shizoku; don, donship; aristocrat, swell, three-tailed bashaw; gentleman, squire, squireen, patrician, laureate. |
Poetry | Poet, poet laureate; laureate; bard, lyrist, scald, skald, troubadour, trouvere; minstrel; minnesinger, meistersinger; improvisatore; versifier, sonneteer; rhymer, rhymist, rhymester; ballad monger, runer; poetaster; genus irritabile vatum. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Laureate |
| English words defined with "laureate": Ben Jonson, Benjamin Jonson ♦ Jonson ♦ Laureated, Laureateship, Laureating ♦ Nobel Laureate ♦ Poet Laureate. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "laureate": Bayes ♦ Poets, Poets Laureate. (references) |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit |  | Robert Bridges, the late Poet Laureate, was once Casualty Physician at Bart's.Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
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Human Rights | Guatemala | Also in August, indigenous leader and 1992 Nobel Peace Prize laureate Rigoberta Menchu Tum announced that she would solicit the assistance of a Mexican forensic anthropology team to work in conducting exhumations. (references) |
Political Economy | Burma | Since October 2000, the Government has met with NLD general secretary and Nobel laureate Aung San Suu Kyi regarding the terms of a potential future transition to democracy. (references) |
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| "Laureate" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 63.64% of the time. "Laureate" is used about 33 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 63.64% | 21 | 76,261 |
| Noun (proper) | 33.33% | 11 | 106,044 |
| Noun (common) | 3.03% | 1 | 339,140 |
| Total | 100.00% | 33 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "laureate": give the laureate ♦ Nobel Laureate ♦ poet laureate ♦ the poet laureate. Additional references. | |
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| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Language | Translations for "laureate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | laureat (prizewinner), poet zyrtar, i shquar (conspicuous, dignified, distinguished, eminent, illustrious, inspected, ladylike, notable, noted, noteworthy, outstanding, pre eminent, prize, remarkable), i lauruar. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | مكلل بالغار, الحائز على تقدير. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | увенчан с лавров венец, назначавам за поет лауреат, лауреат (prizewinner), лавров (bay, laurel). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 得奖者. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | laureát. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ملک الشعراء , اراسته ببرگ غار, برجسته (Boss, Dominant, Egregious, Eminent, Illustrious, Masterwork, Outstanding, Palmary, Palmy, Predominant, Prime, Profile, Prominent, Saleint, Swell, Tyupical). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | Nobel-kirjailija (Nobel laureate, Nobel prize-winning writer), hovirunoilija (poet laureate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | lauréat, prix nobel. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Preisträger. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | δαφνοστεφήσ (laureled). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | עטור זר "פ ", חתן פרס. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | díjnyertes (prize, prize winner, prize-winner, prize-winning), borostyánnal koszorúzott, udvari költő (poet laureate), laureátus, koszorús költő (poet laureate), kitüntetett (decorated, prize-winner), borostyánnal övezett, borostyánkoszorús, babérral koszorúzott, babérkoszorús. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | poeta laureato. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 桂 詩人 (poet laureate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | けいか"しじ" (poet laureate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 계관시인. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | fo laurys. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | aureatelay louvado (expert, specialist, umpire), laureado, serviço de lavanderia, premiado (prizewinning, pro, winning), pessoa laureada. (various references) laureat (prize winner). (various references) лауреат (prizeman, prizewinner). (various references) laureat, pesnički (poetic), ovenčati lovorom, ovenčan lovorom. (various references) laureado. (various references) lagerkrönt. (various references) ผู้สมควรไ"้รับเกียรติยศ. (various references) saray şairi (poet laureate), defne yaprakları ile süslü (laureled, laurelled), ödül kazanmış (laureled, laurelled), ödül kazanan kimse (prize winner). (various references) видатний (big time, conspicuous, egregious, eminent, extant, leading, notable, noted, only, outstanding, pre eminent, prominent, remarkable, shining, signal, stellar, transcendent, walloping), лауреат (prizewinner), лавровий. (various references) người trúng giải thưởng, được giải thưởng. (various references) llawryfog. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | laureatus. (various references) |
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Derivations | |
Words beginning with "laureate": laureated, laureates, laureateship, laureateships. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "laureate": baccalaureate, postbaccalaureate. (additional references) | |
Words containing "laureate": baccalaureates. (additional references) | |
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"Laureate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: lariate, lauratte, laurenti, Laurentia, Laurentii, Lauret, laurete, Laurette, lauzeta, Lorexane. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "laureate" (pronounced lô"rēut) |
| 6 | l ô" r ē u t | baccalaureate. |
| 4 | -r ē u t | appropriate, chariot, compatriot, inappropriate, lariat, patriot, proletariat, secretariat. |
| 3 | -ē u t | associate, Cheviot, idiot, immediate, intermediate, opiate, remediate, soviet. |
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-a-e-e-l-r-t-u" | |
-1 letter: aureate. | |
-2 letters: aerate, aurate, elater, eluate, laurae, relate. | |
-3 letters: alate, alert, altar, alter, areae, areal, arete, artal, artel, aurae, aural, eater, elate, elute, laree, later, laura, lutea, ratal, ratel, reata, relet, talar, taler, telae, ultra, urate, ureal. | |
-4 letters: alae, alar, alee, area, aura, earl, late, lear, leer, leet, lure, lute, rale, rate, real, reel, rete, rule, tael, tala, tale, tare, teal, tear, teel, tela, tele, tree, true, tule, urea. | |
-5 letters: aal, ala, ale, alt, are, art, ate, ear, eat, eau, eel, era, ere, eta, lar, lat, lea, lee, let, leu, rat, ree, ret, rue, rut, tae, tar, tau, tea, tee, tel, uta. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-a-e-e-l-r-t-u" | |
+1 letter: laureated, laureates, revaluate. | |
+2 letters: adulterate, reevaluate, revaluated, revaluates, trabeculae. | |
+3 letters: adulterated, adulterates, caterwauled, entablature, equilateral, perambulate, recalculate, reevaluated, reevaluates, saleratuses, trabeculate, treasurable, ultraheated, unalterable, unelaborate, untraceable. | |
+4 letters: antipleasure, denaturalize, entablatures, extranuclear, extratextual, laureateship, perambulated, perambulates, readjustable, rearticulate, recalculated, recalculates, recapitulate, reevaluating, reevaluation, unbreathable, unmarketable, unrepeatable. | |
+5 letters: antipleasures, baccalaureate, denaturalized, denaturalizes, deuteranomaly, extracellular, laureateships, naturalnesses, preternatural, rearticulated, rearticulates, recapitulated, recapitulates, reevaluations, ultrararefied, ultrareliable, unadulterated. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)4C 61 75 72 65 61 74 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references).-.. .- ..- .-. . .- - . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001100 01100001 01110101 01110010 01100101 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)L a u r e a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)004C 0061 0075 0072 0065 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4667878471678671 |
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