laurel

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see also: Laurel

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Pronunciation

• (British) IPA: /ˈlɒɹ.əl/, /ˈlɔːɹ.əl/
• (America) IPA: /ˈlɔɹ.əl/

Noun

laurel

1. ll mul, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
2. A crown of laurel.
3. (figuratively, chiefly, in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame.

   to win laurels; to crown with laurels

4. (historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

Translations

• French: laurier
• German: Lorbeer
• Italian: alloro
• Portuguese: (Brazil) louro
• Russian: лавр
• Spanish: laurel

Translations

• French: couronne de laurier, couronne de lauriers
• German: Lorbeerkranz
• Portuguese: coroa de louro, louros
• Russian: ла́вровый вено́к
• Spanish: corona de laurel

Translations

• French: lauriers
• Russian: ла́вры

Verb

laurel (laurels, present participle laureling; past laureled, past participle laureled)

1. (transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
2. (transitive) To enwreathe.
3. (transitive, informal) To award top honours to.

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Laurel

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Noun

laurel (plural laurels)

1. (Mormonism) A 16- to 17-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.

Related terms

• Beehive
• Mia Maid

Translations

• Spanish: laurel

Proper noun

1. A female given name from the laurel plant.
   • 1972 Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, Random House, ISBN 0394480171, page 27

     "What on earth made Becky give you a name like that?" she'd asked Laurel, on that first occasion.

     "It's the state flower of West Virginia," Laurel told her, smiling. "Where my mother came from."

2. Surname
3. A municipality in Philippines, ;.
4. A city in Maryland.
5. A city/county seat in Jones County, Mississippi.
6. CDP in Virginia.
7. CDP in Florida.
8. A city in Montana, ;.
9. A town in Delaware, ;.
10. A neighbourhood of Edmonton.
11. A hamlet in New York.
12. A city in Nebraska, ;.
13. A town in Indiana, ;.
14. A city in Iowa, ;.
15. A river in US, flowing from Lake, Kentucky into the Cumberland at Corbin, Kentucky.
16. A neighborhood of Oakland.
17. An unincorporated community in Ohio.
18. An unincorporated community in Oregon, ;.
19. An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
20. An unincorporated community in Washington.
21. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
22. A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.

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