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Laureate vs Emeritus - What's the difference?

laureate | emeritus |

As adjectives the difference between laureate and emeritus

is that laureate is while emeritus is retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title (especially "professor").

As a noun emeritus is

a person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita).

laureate

English

(wikipedia laureate) (Webster 1913)

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.

    • Related terms

    * lauraceous * laurel * laurestine * lauriferous

    External links

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    emeritus

    English

    Adjective

    (wikipedia emeritus) (-)
  • Retired, but retaining an honorific version of previous title (especially "professor").

    • Noun

    (emeriti)
  • A person retired in this sense (feminine form emerita).
  • * 1955 , Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita :
    • Oh, you veteran crime reporter, you grave old usher, you once popular policeman, now in solitary confinement after gracing that school crossing for years, you wretched emeritus read to by a boy!

    Related terms

    * emerita * emeritum ----