Definitions for laureates

laureates lau·re·ate

Spelling: [lawr-ee-it, lor-]
IPA: /ˈlɔr i ɪt, ˈlɒr-/

Laureates is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 454 anagrams from letters in laureates (aaeelrstu).

Definitions for laureates

noun

  1. a person who has been honored for achieving distinction in a particular field or with a particular award:
  2. poet laureate.

adjective

  1. deserving or having special recognition for achievement, as for poetry (often used immediately after the noun that is modified):
  2. having special distinction or recognition in a field:
  3. crowned or decked with laurel as a mark of honor.
  4. consisting of or resembling laurel, as a wreath or crown.

Origin of laureates

1350-1400; Middle English; Latin laureātus crowned with laurel, equivalent to laure(us) of laurel (laur(us) bay tree + -eus -eous) + -ātus Examples for laureates

The West awarded him the Nobel prize for literature in 1987 and America made Brodsky its poet laureate in 1991.

What need we then to constitute a court, except a fool and a laureate?

At that first meeting, activists elected Nobel laureate Andrei Sakharov to be the chair for their society.

The Irish poet and Nobel laureate, who died Friday at the age of 74, was often called accessible, as if it were a handicap.

He wrote sonnets and satires, and was invested with the laureate.

The playwright Jon Fosse could avoid the curse of Henrik Ibsen to become a Norwegian dramatist Nobel laureate.

It was Independent People, by Nobel laureate Haldor Laxness, that put modern Icelandic literature on the global map.

All the pieces now to be found in his character of laureate are in Latin.

If you will have the fruit, said the laureate, you must climb the tree.

I see myself a singer of simple songs, a laureate of the under-dog.

Word Value for laureates
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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