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laureate
adjective
°Crowned, or decked, with laurel - Geoffrey Chaucer.
"To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. - John Milton"
noun
°One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
°A graduate of a university.
verb
°To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.