laurel
IPA: ɫˈɔrʌɫ
noun
- Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
- A crown of laurel.
- (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame.
- (botany) Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
- (botany) Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
- (historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
- (Mormonism) Formerly a 16- to 17-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
- A female or male given name from English from the laurel plant.
- A surname from Spanish.
- A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
- A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.
- A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
- A town in Delaware; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
- A census-designated place in Florida.
- A town in Indiana; named for the city in Maryland.
- A city in Iowa; named for the community in Ohio.
- A city in Maryland.
- A city in and one of the two county seats of Jones County, Mississippi; named for the laurel thickets in the area.
- A city in Montana; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
- A city in Nebraska; named for early settler Laura Martin.
- A hamlet in New York.
- An unincorporated community in Ohio.
- An unincorporated community in Oregon; named for the trees growing in the area, thought to be laurels (later identified as madrones).
- An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
- A census-designated place in Virginia.
- An unincorporated community in Washington.
- An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
- A river flowing from Lake, Kentucky into the Cumberland at Corbin, Kentucky.
verb
- (transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
- (transitive) To enwreathe.
- (transitive, informal) To award top honours to.
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Examples of "laurel" in Sentences
- (In the picture you can also see my little Kalmia mountain laurel ‘Minuet.’)
- I could tell that they were seeing the rod flick and spooking even when I was up against mountain laurel on the bank.
- This is from the 2008 season, after tracking a bear for three hours across various ridges and thick mountain laurel patches.
- The laurel tree was his personal emblem, as the word laurel and the Latin version of his name, Laurentius, had the same root.
- The firing direction points only to impassible tangles of mountain laurel and hummocky swamp behind my earth filled 55 gallon drums for backstop.
- Further up, a stream jumped and tumbled over and between mossy rocks, its sounds muffled by the banks of rhododendron and mountain laurel that clustered round it.
- Upon enquiring our way he kindly volunteered to take us across what he called the laurel swamp and the old mill dam: which he said would be impossible without a guide.
- I do not think the need of revisal of our present scientific classification could be more clearly demonstrated than by the fact that laurels and roses are confused, even by Dr. Lindley, in the mind of his feminine readers; the English word laurel, in the index to his first volume of Ladies 'Botany, referring them to the cherries, under which the common laurel is placed as' Prunus Laurocerasus, 'while the true laurel,' Laurus nobilis, 'must be found in the index of the second volume, under the Latin form' Laurus. '