As nouns the difference between laureate and laurate
is that
laureate is one crowned with laurel; a poet laureate while
laurate is any salt or ester of lauric acid.
As an adjective laureate
is crowned, or decked, with laurel.
As a verb laureate
is to honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.
Other Comparisons: What's the difference?
laureate Adjective
( -)
Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
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- To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
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- Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.
Derived terms
* poet laureate
* Nobel laureate
Noun
( en noun)
(dated) One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
* Cleveland
- A learned laureate .
A graduate of a university.
Verb
(laureat)
To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.
Related terms
* lauraceous
* laurel
* laurestine
* lauriferous
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laurate English
Noun
(en-noun)
(chemistry) Any salt or ester of lauric acid
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