Laureate /(?)/

Lau·re·ate

Laureate

a.
  1. Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
    To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
    Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.

Phrases & Compounds
Poet laureate
One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- so called as being presented with a wreath of laurel.

Laureate

n.
  1. One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
  2. A person who has been presented with an award for some distinguished achievement; as, a Nobel laureate; the Pris de Rome laureate; the Music Director Laureate; the conductor laureate.

Laureate

v. i.

imp. & p. p. Laureated; p. pr. & vb. n. Laureating

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