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語源

Borrowed from Latin laureatus, from laurea (“laurel tree”), from laureus (“of laurel”), from laurus (“laurel”). Compare French lauréat.

発音

(adjective, noun)

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈlɒɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɔːɹ.i.ət/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈlɔɹ.i.ət/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.ət/

(verb)

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈlɒɹ.i.eɪt/, /ˈlɔːɹ.i.eɪt/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈlɔɹ.i.eɪt/, /ˈlɑɹ.i.eɪt/

形容詞

laureate (not comparable)

1. (sometimes postpositive) Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
   • 1637, John Milton, “Lycidas”, in Poems of Mr. John Milton, […], London: […] Ruth Raworth for Humphrey Mosely, […], published 1646, →OCLC:

     To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.

   • 1728, [Alexander Pope], “(please specify the page)”, in The Dunciad. An Heroic Poem. […], Dublin, London: […] A. Dodd, →OCLC:

     Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines.

   • 2007, Robert J. Meyer-Lee, Poets and Power from Chaucer to Wyatt‎:

     Although the post of poet laureate as we know it was not established until John Dryden's appointment in 1668,

名詞

laureate (plural laureates)

1. (dated) One crowned with laurel, such as a poet laureate or Nobel laureate.
   • a. 1658, John Cleveland, An Elegy to Ben Johnson:

     a learn'd laureate

   • 2021 October 8, Jon Henley and Rebecca Ratcliffe, “Journalists Maria Ressa and Dmitry Muratov win Nobel peace prize”, in The Guardian‎:

     Maria Ressa, the chief executive and cofounder of Rappler, and Dmitry Muratov, the editor-in-chief of Novaya Gazeta, were named as this year’s laureates by Berit Reiss-Andersen, the chair of the Norwegian Nobel committee.

2. A graduate of a university.

派生語

動詞

laureate (third-person singular simple present laureates, present participle laureating, simple past and past participle laureated)

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

関連する語

• lauraceous
• laurel
• laurestine
• lauriferous

Further reading

• “laureate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “laureate”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
• “laureate”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.