Laureate vs Laurate - What's the difference?
laureate | laurate |
Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
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(dated) One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
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A graduate of a university.
To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.
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.laureate
Adjective
(-)- To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
- Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.
Derived terms
* poet laureate * Nobel laureateNoun
(en noun)- A learned laureate .
