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A female or male given name from English from the laurel plant.
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A surname from Spanish.
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A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
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name
A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
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A number of places in the United States:
A town in Sussex County, Delaware; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Florida.
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A number of places in the United States:
A town in Indiana; named for the city in Maryland.
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A number of places in the United States:
A city in Iowa; named for the community in Ohio.
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A number of places in the United States:
A city in Maryland.
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A number of places in the United States:
A city in and one of the two county seats of Jones County, Mississippi; named for the laurel thickets in the area.
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A number of places in the United States:
A city in Montana; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A city in Nebraska; named for early settler Laura Martin.
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A number of places in the United States:
A hamlet in New York.
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Ohio.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Oregon; named for the trees growing in the area, thought to be laurels (later identified as madrones).
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
A census-designated place in Virginia.
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name
A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in Washington.
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A number of places in the United States:
An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
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A number of places in the United States:
A river flowing from Lake, Kentucky into the Cumberland at Corbin, Kentucky.
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noun
An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
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noun
A crown of laurel.
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noun
Honor, distinction, fame.
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Usage: countable, figuratively, in-plural, uncountable
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noun
Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
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Usage: countable, uncountable
Topics: biology, botany, natural-sciences
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noun
An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
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Usage: countable, historical, uncountable
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noun
Formerly, a participant aged sixteen or seventeen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
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Usage: Mormonism
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verb
To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To enwreathe.
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Usage: transitive
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verb
To award top honours to.
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Usage: informal, transitive
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noun
(antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory
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Synonyms: laurel wreath, bay wreath
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Broader terms: wreath, garland, coronal, chaplet, lei
noun
United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)
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Synonyms: Stan Laurel, Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel
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Broader terms: comedian, comic
noun
any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
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Broader terms: angiospermous tree, flowering tree
Narrower terms: true laurel, bay, bay laurel, bay tree, Laurus nobilis, camphor tree, Cinnamomum camphora, cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon, Ceylon cinnamon tree, Cinnamomum zeylanicum, cassia, cassia-bark tree, Cinnamomum cassia, Saigon cinnamon, Cinnamomum loureirii, laurel-tree, red bay, Persea borbonia, sassafras, sassafras tree, Sassafras albidum, California laurel, California bay tree, Oregon myrtle, pepperwood, spice tree, sassafras laurel, California olive, mountain laurel, Umbellularia californica
History
Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Doublet of loureiro.
Across languages
112 source translations are retained for this English entry.
