laureate

  1. Adjective.  Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
  2. Noun.  (dated) One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
  3. Noun.  A graduate of a university.
  4. Verb.  (intransitive) To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in bestowing a degree at English universities.

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