laurelled

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/ˈlɒɹəld//ˈlɔːɹəld/

adjective

Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

verb

alternative laureled

  1. UKparticiplepastsimple past and past participle of laurel
adjective

alternative laureled

  1. Crowned with laurel, or with a laurel wreath; laureate.

    The laurelled head of Macrious, with the usual peculiarities, and the lorica strapped over his shoulders.

    1834, William Henry Smyth, Descriptive catalogue of a cabinet of Roman imperial large-brass medals
  2. Highly honored

    Her most laurelled novels, which make up The Wonderland Quartet, include the National Book Award–winning Them, and charts the decline of working-class America in the 1960s.

    2012, John Freeman, How to Read a Novelist, →ISBN, page 209
    1 more example

    A heavily laurelled Irish bard – no, not the one you're thinking of: another one, with less talent – was reading a purportedly humorous poem to the usual sporadic titters, and I heard a recognizable Scots voice in the crowd near me growl, 'I don't think that's funny. Why does anyone think that's funny. I don't think that's funny.'

    2006, Clive James, North Face of Soho: Unreliable Memoirs, →ISBN

Synonyms & antonyms

adjectivecrowned with or as if with laurel symbolizing victory

Also see

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

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Chicago

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