Laureate

['lɒrɪət;'lɔː-] or ['lɔrɪət]

解釋/意思:

(noun.) someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath.

(adj.) worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; 'The nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down his black bag'- James Traub .

丹尼斯校對--From WordNet

解釋/意思:

(a.) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.

(n.) One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.

(v. i.) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at the English universities.

伯特伦編輯

同義詞及近義詞：

n. Poet-laureate, court-poet.

杜威手打

解釋/意思:

adj. crowned with laurel.—n. one crowned with laurel: a poet-laureate.—v.t. to crown with laurel in token of literary merit: to confer a degree upon.—ns. Lau′reateship office of a laureate; Laureā′tion act of laureating or conferring a degree; Pō′et-lau′reate formerly one who received a degree in grammar (i.e. poetry and rhetoric) at the English universities: a poet bearing that honorary title a salaried officer in the royal household appointed to compose annually an ode for the king's birthday and other suitable occasions.

欧文校對