Definitions for Laurel

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Laurel lau·rel

Spelling: [lawr-uh l, lor-]

IPA: /ˈlɔr əl, ˈlɒr-/

Laurel is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 6 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 71 anagrams from letters in Laurel (aellru).

Definitions for Laurel

noun

1. Also called bay, sweet bay. a small European evergreen tree, Laurus nobilis, of the laurel family, having dark, glossy green leaves. Compare laurel family.
2. any tree of the genus Laurus.
3. any of various similar trees or shrubs, as the mountain laurel or the great rhododendron.
4. the foliage of the laurel as an emblem of victory or distinction.
5. a branch or wreath of laurel foliage.
6. Usually, laurels. honor won, as for achievement in a field or activity.
7. Stan (Arthur Stanley Jefferson) 1890–1965, U.S. motion-picture actor and comedian, born in England.
8. a city in SE Mississippi.
9. a town in central Maryland.
10. a female given name.

Idioms

1. look to one's laurels, to be alert to the possibility of being excelled or surpassed:
2. rest on one's laurels, to be content with one's past or present honors, achievements, etc.:

verb (used with object)

1. to adorn or wreathe with laurel.
2. to honor with marks of distinction.

Origin of Laurel

1250-1300; dissimilated variant of Middle English laurer, earlier lorer Anglo-French; Old French lorier bay tree, equivalent to lor bay, laurel (Latin laurus) + -ier -ier<

Examples for Laurel

One artist, Edgardo Aragón from Oaxaca, tries to capture that in an exhibition at the laurel Gitlen Gallery.

It was twined of Olympic olive leaves and Apollo's own laurel.

Did McCarthy invent the portrayal of violence in fiction, or should that laurel go to Homer?

The said branch is usually styled a laurel branch, but why I know not.

But no laurel wreaths waited for Marina on the day of her victory.

She stood at the entrance to the laurel grove and peered a little forward.

If Pat Roberts lived in Dodge City, why did he travel 1,400 miles out of his way to purchase his car in laurel, Maryland?

He held a sprig of laurel in his hand during the time he was confined in the pillory.

So when my wife and I moved to laurel Canyon I spent my first year working night and day on the show.

It was a crisis when there was a fair opening for new candidates for the laurel.