See Also: Thucydidean(dictionary)

laureate (oh) and Thucydidean (iou)


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

Thucydidean (iou)



Thucydidean adjective. M18.
[from Thucydides (see below) + -EAN.]
Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of the Greek historian Thucydides (c 460-c 395 BC) or his work.