• (British) IPA: /ˈlɒ.ɹi.ət/, /ˈlɔːɹ.i.ət/
• (America) IPA: /ˈlɔɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.ət/

laureate (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
   • 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […] , London: Printed by Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Moſely,  […], published 1645, OCLC 606951673 ↗:

     To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid#English|Lycid lies.

   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify )”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. In Three Books, Dublin; London: Reprinted for A. Dodd, OCLC 1033416756 ↗:

   • 2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt ↗

     Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,

• French: lauréat, lauréate
• Spanish: laureado, galardonado, ganador

laureate (plural laureates)

1. (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.

   • A learned laureate.

2. A graduate of a university.

• French: lauréat, lauréate
• German: Laureat, Laureatin
• Russian: лауреа́т
• Spanish: laureado, galardonado

laureate (laureates, present participle laureating; past and past participle laureated)

1. (intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

• Spanish: laurear, galardonar

• lauraceous
• laurel
• laurestine
• lauriferous