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Laureate vs Aureate - What's the difference?

laureate | aureate |

As adjectives the difference between laureate and aureate

is that laureate is while aureate is golden in color or shine.

laureate

Adjective

(-)
  • Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
  • *
  • To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
  • *
  • 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.
  • aureate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • golden in color or shine
  • characterized by inflated or pompous language
  • Derived terms

    * aureation