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laureate
(encz) | laureate,hodný nejvyššího ocenění n: Zdeněk Brož |
laureate
(encz) | laureate,laureát n: Zdeněk Brož |
laureate
(encz) | laureate,ověnčen vavřínem Zdeněk Brož |
Laureate
(gcide) | Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, n.
1. One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate. "A learned
laureate." --Cleveland.
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2. A person who has been presented with an award for some
distinguished achievement; as, a Nobel laureate; the Pris
de Rome laureate; the Music Director Laureate; the
conductor laureate.
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Laureate
(gcide) | Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Laureated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Laureating.]
To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in
bestowing a degree at the English universities.
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Laureate
(gcide) | Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, a. [L. laureatus, fr. laurea laurel tree,
fr. laureus of laurel, fr. laurus laurel: cf. F. laur['e]at.
Cf. Laurel.]
Crowned, or decked, with laurel. --Chaucer.
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To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
--Milton.
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Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. --Pope.
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Poet laureate.
(b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar,
including poetry and rhetoric, at the English
universities; -- so called as being presented with a
wreath of laurel. [Obs.]
(b) Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose
business was to compose an ode annually for the king's
birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet
officially distinguished by such honorary title, the
office being a sinecure. It is said this title was first
given in the time of Edward IV. [Eng.]
(c) A poet who has been publicly recognized as the most
pre-eminent poet of a country or region; as, the poet
laureate of the United States.
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laureate
(wn) | laureate
adj 1: worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; "The
nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down
his black bag"- James Traub
n 1: someone honored for great achievements; figuratively
someone crowned with a laurel wreath |
laureate
(devil) | LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the
Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as
dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal
funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had
the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and
cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense
which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the
aspect of a national crime.
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baccalaureate
(encz) | baccalaureate,bakalářství Zdeněk Brožbaccalaureate,bakalaureát n: Zdeněk Brožbaccalaureate,hodnost bakaláře Zdeněk Brož |
laureate
(encz) | laureate,hodný nejvyššího ocenění n: Zdeněk Brožlaureate,laureát n: Zdeněk Brožlaureate,ověnčen vavřínem Zdeněk Brož |
laureateship
(encz) | laureateship, |
poet laureate
(encz) | poet laureate,dvorní básník Zdeněk Brož |
Baccalaureate
(gcide) | Baccalaureate \Bac"ca*lau"re*ate\, n. [NL. baccalaureatus, fr.
LL. baccalaureus a bachelor of arts, fr. baccalarius, but as
if fr. L. bacca lauri bayberry, from the practice of the
bachelor's wearing a garland of bayberries. See Bachelor.]
1. The degree of bachelor of arts (B.A. or A.B.), the first
or lowest academical degree conferred by universities and
colleges.
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2. A baccalaureate sermon. [U.S.]
[1913 Webster]Baccalaureate \Bac`ca*lau"re*ate\, a.
Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.
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Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon
delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.
[1913 Webster] Baccara |
Baccalaureate sermon
(gcide) | Baccalaureate \Bac`ca*lau"re*ate\, a.
Pertaining to a bachelor of arts.
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Baccalaureate sermon, in some American colleges, a sermon
delivered as a farewell discourse to a graduating class.
[1913 Webster] Baccara |
Laureated
(gcide) | Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Laureated; p. pr. &
vb. n. Laureating.]
To honor with a wreath of laurel, as formerly was done in
bestowing a degree at the English universities.
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Laureateship
(gcide) | Laureateship \Lau"re*ate*ship\, n.
State, or office, of a laureate.
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Poet laureate
(gcide) | Poet \Po"et\, n. [F. po["e]te, L. po["e]ta, fr. Gr. ?, fr. ? to
make. Cf. Poem.]
One skilled in making poetry; one who has a particular genius
for metrical composition; the author of a poem; an
imaginative thinker or writer.
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The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven.
--Shak.
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A poet is a maker, as the word signifies. --Dryden.
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Poet laureate. See under Laureate.
[1913 Webster]Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, a. [L. laureatus, fr. laurea laurel tree,
fr. laureus of laurel, fr. laurus laurel: cf. F. laur['e]at.
Cf. Laurel.]
Crowned, or decked, with laurel. --Chaucer.
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To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies.
--Milton.
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Soft on her lap her laureate son reclines. --Pope.
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Poet laureate.
(b) One who received an honorable degree in grammar,
including poetry and rhetoric, at the English
universities; -- so called as being presented with a
wreath of laurel. [Obs.]
(b) Formerly, an officer of the king's household, whose
business was to compose an ode annually for the king's
birthday, and other suitable occasions; now, a poet
officially distinguished by such honorary title, the
office being a sinecure. It is said this title was first
given in the time of Edward IV. [Eng.]
(c) A poet who has been publicly recognized as the most
pre-eminent poet of a country or region; as, the poet
laureate of the United States.
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baccalaureate
(wn) | baccalaureate
n 1: a farewell sermon to a graduating class at their
commencement ceremonies
2: an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully
completed undergraduate studies [syn: bachelor's degree,
baccalaureate] |
laureate
(wn) | laureate
adj 1: worthy of the greatest honor or distinction; "The
nation's pediatrician laureate is preparing to lay down
his black bag"- James Traub
n 1: someone honored for great achievements; figuratively
someone crowned with a laurel wreath |
nobel laureate
(wn) | Nobel Laureate
n 1: winner of a Nobel prize [syn: Nobelist, Nobel Laureate] |
poet laureate
(wn) | poet laureate
n 1: a poet who is unofficially regarded as holding an honorary
position in a particular group or region; "she is the poet
laureate of all lyricists"; "he is the poet laureate of
Arkansas"
2: the poet officially appointed to the royal household in Great
Britain; "the poet laureate is expected to provide poems for
great national occasions" |
laureate
(devil) | LAUREATE, adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the
Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as
dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal
funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had
the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and
cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense
which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the
aspect of a national crime.
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