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English [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus ( " laurel " ).

Pronunciation [edit]

• ( UK ) IPA^(key): /ˈlɒɹ.əl/, /ˈlɔːɹ.əl/
• ( U.s. ) IPA^(key): /ˈlɔɹ.əl/
• Rhymes: -ɒɹəl

Noun [edit]

laurel (countable and uncountable, plural laurels)

1. Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.

   • March 1920, Alice Ballantine Kirjassoff, "FORMOSA THE Beautiful", in National Geographic Mag‎^[1], folio 265-half-dozen:

     Now large tracts of land are given over to the cultivation of the camphor laurel.

2. A crown of laurel.
3. ( figuratively, chiefly in the plural ) Honor, distinction, fame.

   to win honour; to crown with accolade

4. ( botany ) Whatsoever plant of the family Lauraceae.
5. ( botany ) Any of diverse plants of other families that resemble laurels.
6. ( historical ) An English gilded coin made in 1619, and so chosen considering the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

Derived terms [edit]

• American laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
• bay laurel (Laurus nobilis)
• California laurel (Umbellularia californica)
• cherry laurel
• smashing laurel ( Rhododendron maximum )
• ground laurel ( Epigaea repens )
• Laurel County
• laurel water
• laurel wreath
• mount laurel (Kalmia latifolia)
• New Zealand laurel
• Oregon laurel (Umbellularia californica)
• Portugal laurel ( Prunus lusitanica )
• rest on 1's laurels
• rose laurel (Nerium oleander)
• sheep laurel ( Kalmia angustifolia )
• spotted laurel ( Aucuba japonica )
• spurge laurel ( Daphne laureola )
• Westward Indian laurel

Translations [edit]

The translations beneath demand to exist checked and inserted above into the appropriate translation tables, removing any numbers. Numbers do not necessarily match those in definitions. See instructions at Wiktionary:Entry layout § Translations.

Verb [edit]

laurel (third-person singular uncomplicated present honor, present participle laureling or laurelling, uncomplicated past and past participle laureled or laurelled)

1. ( transitive ) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.

   • 2014, Cayden Carrico, A Nocturne of Echoes, →ISBN, page 32:

     Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to concord upwards the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.

2. ( transitive ) To enwreathe.

   • 2013, John Hornor Jacobs, The Twelve-Fingered Male child, →ISBN, folio 161:

     It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nigh hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.

3. ( transitive, informal ) To award top honours to.

   • 1866, Archibald Fergusson, The crusher' and the Cross, folio 149:

     In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Piddling K . He was laurelled and decorated more than than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in backbone, coolness, and daring. In 1 matter more he also excelled them — he was roughshod, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.

   • 1927, John Mackinnon Robertson, Mod humanists reconsidered, page 29:

     Non in whatsoever vision of that order did he figure for near of the admirers who laurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go on laurelling him still.

   • 2010, Andrew Rawnsley, The End of the Party, →ISBN:

     He was laurelled in admiring headlines from both left and right.

   • 2017, George William Rutler, Cloud of Witnesses: Dead People I Knew When They Were Live, →ISBN:

     In 1973, the modern papist missionary was laurelled an honorary Physician of Divinity by the establishment founded by a Congregationalist missionary to the Indians of the northern wilds.

See also [edit]

• Laurel and Hardy

References [edit]

• laurel at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams [edit]

• attraction

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Spanish [edit]

Etymology [edit]

Borrowed from Old Occitan laurier, which was inherited from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, which was derived from Latin laurus.

Pronunciation [edit]

• IPA^(key): /lauˈɾel/, [lau̯ˈɾel]

Substantive [edit]

laurel 1000 (plural laureles)

1. ( botany ) laurel

Derived terms [edit]

• dormirse en los laureles
• laurel alejandrino
• laurel cerezo
• laurel real
• laurel rosa

[edit]

• laurear

Further reading [edit]

• "laurel", in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014

Source: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/laurel

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