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▸ 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.
Similar:
laurel wreath,
honour,
honor,
accolade,
award,
bay wreath,
true laurel,
bay laurel,
sweetwood,
bayberry,
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Types:
bay laurel,
California laurel,
Oregon laurel,
mountain laurel,
spicebush,
sassafras,
avocado,
more...
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