Laureate
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Crowned, or decked, with laurel. Chaucer.To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. Milton.Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. Pope.Poet laureate. (b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar,including poetry and rhetoric, at the English universities; -- socalled as being presented with a wreath of laurel. [Obs.] (b)Formerly, an officer of the kings
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The recipient of honor or recognition for achievement in an art or science.
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A person who is honoured with an award for outstanding creative or intellectual achievement.
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