laureate

Meanings

Adjective

• Crowned, or decked, with laurel.

Noun

• One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
• A graduate of a university.

Verb

• To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea, from laureus, from laurus. Compare French lauréat.