See Also: Laureate(medicine)
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laureate (oh)



[Date: 1300-1400; Language: Latin; Origin: laureatus 'crowned with laurel', from laurus; LAUREL]
someone who has been given an important prize or honour, especially the Nobel Prize
::Nigeria's Nobel laureate, Wole Soyinka
-see also Poet Laureate