Laureate Meaning
/ˈlɒɹ.i.ət/Definition, CEFR level C1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
adjCrowned, or decked, with laurel.
nounOne crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
Sentence Examples
Professor Reinhard Selten, Nobel laureate in economics, said: Esperanto is good for the mind.
Itzhak Rabin was the Nobel Peace Prize laureate for the year 1994.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The celebrated poet became a highly respected literary ____ after winning the Nobel Prize.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The Nobel ____ delivered a fascinating lecture on the future of science to a large and attentive audience.
Word Origin & History
First attested during the end of the 15th century, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin laureātus, from laurea (“laurel crown, wreath”, a high reward given to poets and later to the triumphant) + -ātus (forming adjectives indicating possession) (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (noun-forming suffix)), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). The verb was formed by metanalysis, see -ate (verb-forming suffix). Cognate with French lauréat.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies."
— 1637 (date written; published 1638), John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:
"Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines."
— 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin; London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:
"Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,"
— 2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt:
"a learn'd laureate"
— a. 1658, John Cleveland, An Elegy to Ben Johnson:
"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."
— 2021 October 8, Jon Henley and Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize”, in The Guardian:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The celebrated poet became a highly respected literary ____ after winning the Nobel Prize.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The Nobel ____ delivered a fascinating lecture on the future of science to a large and attentive audience.