Garland vs Laurel - What's the difference?
garland | laurel |
A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.
An accolade or mark of honour.
(mining) A metal gutter placed round a mine shaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
The crown of a monarch.
(dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
* Percy
The top; the thing most prized.
(nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
(nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.
An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus , having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
A crown of laurel.
(figuratively, chiefly, in the plural) honor, distinction, fame.
An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel
As nouns the difference between garland and laurel
is that garland is a wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration while laurel is an evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.As proper nouns the difference between garland and laurel
is that garland is {{surname|A=An|occupational|from=occupations}} for a maker or seller of garlands while Laurel is {{given name|female|from=English}} from the plant {{term|laurel|lang=en}}.As a verb garland
is to deck or ornament something with a garland.garland
English
Noun
(en noun) (wikipedia garland)- (Alexander Pope)
- (Grafton)
- They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands .
- (Shakespeare)
See also
* chapletlaurel
English
(wikipedia laurel)Noun
(en noun)- to win laurels'''; to crown with '''laurels .
