Usually means: Evergreen shrub with aromatic leaves.
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We found 40 dictionaries that define the word laurel:

General (28 matching dictionaries)
  1. laurel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. Laurel, laurel: Merriam-Webster
  3. Laurel, laurel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. laurel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. laurel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. Laurel, laurel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Laurel, laurel: Wordnik
  8. laurel: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. Laurel, laurel: Wiktionary
  10. laurel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. laurel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. laurel: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. Laurel, laurel: Dictionary.com
  14. laurel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. laurel: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Laurel (English coin), Laurel (MARC station), Laurel (disambiguation), Laurel (given name), Laurel (musician), Laurel (surname), Laurel, The Laurel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Laurel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. laurel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. Laurel: Rhymezone
  20. Laurel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. laurel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. Laurel: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. laurel: FreeDictionary.org
  24. laurel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. Laurel: TheFreeDictionary.com
  26. laurel: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Epicurus.com Spanish Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Natural Magick (No longer online)

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Laurel: Legal dictionary
  2. Laurel: Financial dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Laurel (botany), laurel: Encyclopedia

Medicine (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Laurel: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. baby names list (No longer online)
  2. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)
  3. laurel: Idioms

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. A Modern Herbal, 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve (No longer online)

Slang (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Laurel, The Laurel: Urban Dictionary

(Note: See laureled as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
noun:  A crown of laurel.
noun:  (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame.
noun:  (botany) Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
noun:  (botany) Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
noun:  (historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
verb:  (transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
verb:  (transitive) To enwreathe.
verb:  (transitive, informal) To award top honours to.
noun:  (Mormonism) Formerly a 16- to 17-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
noun:  A female or male given name from English from the laurel plant.
noun:  A surname from Spanish.
noun:  A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
noun:  A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
noun:  A number of places in the United States:
noun:  A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.
noun:  A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
noun:  A town in Delaware; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
noun:  A census-designated place in Florida.
noun:  A town in Indiana; named for the city in Maryland.
noun:  A city in Iowa; named for the community in Ohio.
noun:  A city in Maryland.
noun:  A city in and one of the two county seats of Jones County, Mississippi; named for the laurel thickets in the area.
noun:  A city in Montana; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
noun:  A city in Nebraska; named for early settler Laura Martin.
noun:  A hamlet in New York.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Ohio.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Oregon; named for the trees growing in the area, thought to be laurels (later identified as madrones).
noun:  An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
noun:  A census-designated place in Virginia.
noun:  An unincorporated community in Washington.
noun:  An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
noun:  A river flowing from Lake, Kentucky into the Cumberland at Corbin, Kentucky.

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