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Laureate vs Prizer - What's the difference?

laureate | prizer |

As an adjective laureate

is .

As a noun prizer is

one who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser.

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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    prizer

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • One who estimates or sets the value of a thing; an appraiser.
  • * 1602 , , II. ii. 57:
    • But value dwells not in particular will; / It holds his estimate and dignity / As well wherein 'tis precious of itself / As in the prizer .
  • (obsolete) One who contends for a prize; a prizefighter; a challenger.
  • * 1599 , , II. iii. 8:
    • Why would you be so fond to overcome / The bonny prizer of the humorous Duke?
  • * 1600 , , V. iii.
    • Appeareth no man yet to answer the prizer ?