 |
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, adjective [L. laureatus, fr. laurea laurel tree, fr. laureus of laurel, fr. laurus laurel: cf. F. laur['e]at. Cf. {Laurel}.] Crowned, or decked, with laurel. --Chaucer.
To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. --Milton.
Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. --Pope.
{Poet laureate}. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] (b) Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose business was to compose an ode annually for the king's birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet officially distinguished by such honorary title, the office being a sinecure. It is said this title was first given in the time of Edward IV. [Eng.] (c) A poet who has been publicly recognized as the most pre-eminent poet of a country or region; as, the poet laureate of the United States. [1913 Webster +PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, noun
1. One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. ''A learned laureate.'' --Cleveland.
2. A person who has been presented with an award for some distinguished achievement; as, a Nobel laureate; the Pris de Rome laureate; the Music Director Laureate; the conductor laureate. [PJC]
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Laureated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Laureating}.] To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
laureate
adjective: worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; "The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag"- James Traub
noun: someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "laureate": A per se, Meistersinger, Olympic medal winner, Parnassian, ace, arch-poet, award winner, ballad maker, balladmonger, bard, beat poet, boss, bucoliast, champ, champion, chief, commander, crowned with laurel, dean, distinguished, elegist, epic poet, fili, fugleman, genius, head, higher-up, honored, idyllist, imagist, jongleur, leader, librettist, major poet, maker, master, medalist, minnesinger, minor poet, minstrel, modernist, nonpareil, occasional poet, odist, paragon, pastoral poet, pastoralist, poet, poet laureate, poetress, principal, prizeman, prizetaker, prizewinner, prodigy, rhapsode, rhapsodist, ruler, satirist, scop, senior, skald, sonneteer, star, superior, superman, superstar, symbolist, the greatest, the most, top dog, troubadour, trouveur, trovatore, vers libriste, vers-librist, virtuoso, world champion, world-record holder
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
LAUREATE, adjective 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.
 |
Definitions retrieved from local copies of the freely distributed DICT client/server software and databases. Click here for database copyright information. - KM |