laureate
IPA: ɫˈɔriʌt
noun
- (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
- A graduate of a university.
verb
- (intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.
adjective
- (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
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Examples of "laureate" in Sentences
- He was the poet laureate of this year.
- In 2000 she was the Laureate of the Demidov Prize.
- The first is the number of days lived by the laureate.
- Andrew Baston was the poet laureate of the United Kingdom.
- Its campus has parking spaces reserved for Nobel laureates.
- He now has the title of conductor laureate of the orchestra.
- He is the first Argentine and Latin American Nobel laureate in the sciences.
- Mira Stupica is the president for life of the jury who chooses the laureate.
- Having a Nobel laureate is NO guarrantee of leadership, control or efficiency.
- The name of the laureate is engraved on the plate below the figures, and the text REG.
- The other armed forces claim similar numbers of laureates, albeit with considerable overlap.
- Michael Rosen, the children's laureate, is of course somewhere out to the left of Ghengis Khan.
- The two Nobel laureates had never previously met, and talked privately for about 30 minutes in London.
- Marrying a Nobel laureate is the second best option, according to Borje Johansson, a member of the Nobel committee on physics.
- The former Vice President and Nobel laureate is raising the bar with the goal of total carbon-free wind, solar and geothermal power by 2018.
- First published in the West in 1973, "The Gulag Archipelago" prompted the Kremlin to expel the Nobel laureate from the Soviet Union and strip him of citizenship in 1974.
- The Romantic laureate is to be felt beyond the grave by the Victorians, and by their own poet, not in the wispy or whispering touch of his breathed words but in the abstract feelings generated from the written traces of their prophetic aura of aurality.
- From this exalted perch, the poet laureate is charged with bringing poetry to the forefront of the American consciousness, as well as playing consultant to the Library of Congress — which includes giving a reading at the beginning of the term and a lecture or reading at end of term, organizing monthly readings and overseeing the Library's poetry fellowships and prizes.