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Laurel

//ˈlɔɹ.əl// name, noun, verb, slang

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A female or male given name from English from the laurel plant.

    ""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. 2
    A surname from Spanish.
  3. 3
    A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
  4. 4
    A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
  5. 5
    A number of places in the United States:; A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.
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  1. 6
    A number of places in the United States:; A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
  2. 7
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Delaware; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
  3. 8
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Florida.
  4. 9
    A number of places in the United States:; A town in Indiana; named for the city in Maryland.
  5. 10
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Iowa; named for the community in Ohio.
  6. 11
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Maryland.
  7. 12
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in and one of the two county seats of Jones County, Mississippi; named for the laurel thickets in the area.
  8. 13
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Montana; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
  9. 14
    A number of places in the United States:; A city in Nebraska; named for early settler Laura Martin.
  10. 15
    A number of places in the United States:; A hamlet in New York.
  11. 16
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Ohio.
  12. 17
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Oregon; named for the trees growing in the area, thought to be laurels (later identified as madrones).
  13. 18
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
  14. 19
    A number of places in the United States:; A census-designated place in Virginia.
  15. 20
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in Washington.
  16. 21
    A number of places in the United States:; An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
  17. 22
    A number of places in the United States:; A river flowing from Lake, Kentucky into the Cumberland at Corbin, Kentucky.
Noun
  1. 1
    An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils. countable, uncountable

    "Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise."

  2. 2
    Formerly, a participant aged sixteen or seventeen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church. Mormonism
  3. 3
    (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory wordnet
  4. 4
    A crown of laurel. countable, uncountable
  5. 5
    any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family wordnet
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  1. 6
    Honor, distinction, fame. countable, figuratively, in-plural, uncountable

    "to win laurels"

  2. 7
    Any plant of the family Lauraceae. countable, uncountable
  3. 8
    Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels. countable, uncountable
  4. 9
    An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel. countable, historical, uncountable
Verb
  1. 1
    To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath. transitive

    "Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals."

  2. 2
    To enwreathe. transitive

    "It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park."

  3. 3
    To award top honours to. informal, transitive

    "In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes."

Etymology

Etymology 1

Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Doublet of loureiro.

Etymology 2

Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Doublet of loureiro.

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