laurel

name

1. A female or male given name from English from the laurel plant.

   “"What on earth made Becky give you a name like that?" she'd asked Laurel, on that first occasion. "It's the state flower of West Virginia," Laurel told her, smiling. "Where my mother came from."”

2. A surname from Spanish.
3. A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
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noun

1. Formerly, a participant aged sixteen or seventeen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.

verb

Etymology: Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Doublet of loureiro.

1. To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.

   “Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.”

2. To enwreathe.

   “It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.”

3. To award top honours to.

   “In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.”

   “Not in any vision of that order did he figure for most of the admirers who laurelled him on his eightieth birthday and the few who go on laurelling him still.”