laureate
- noun
- /ˈlɔːr.i.ət/
- No doubt they were surprised when a Nobel laureate actually accepted.
- Nobel laureate
- poet laureate
- Nobel laureate physicist
I mean, she's only the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- I mean, she's only the youngest ever Nobel Peace Prize laureate.
- And his tomb says Nobel laureate right.
- But Young and Pauli, a Nobel laureate, I'm forgetting his first name.
- This young woman is me, a Nobel laureate.
- Then we hear from Randall Weingarten, who we call a poet laureate in the group.
- Now, that's Kahneman's argument, even though he's a Nobel laureate.
- Nobel laureate Francis Crick, Nobel laureate Gerald Edelman won the Nobel Prize for his work in immunology.
- And you piled up how many Nobel laureates to defend the idea that any inquiry into the origin of this virus was racism?
- As a final report, the project said there wasn't a Nobel laureate, there wasn't a Pulitzer Prize.
Examples
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Franck was a Nobel laureate from Germany who escaped from Hitler.
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He was a Nobel laureate and he wrote a little book called What is Life?
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What do you say about the youngest Nobel laureate in history?
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In this connection, British Nobel laureate Sir Brian Peter Medawar's advice comes readily to mind.
Academic text (2011) -
And then finally I came across some writings by Nobel laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer.
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Elie Wiesel, the Nobel laureate, laureate professor and author, once wrote we must always take sides.
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Dr. Cardenas was physically youthful, quite attractive, a Nobel laureate, and the leader in her chosen field of study.
Fiction book (2001) -
Indiana's poet laureate.
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The poetry of survivor and Nobel Laureate Nelly Sachs can also be used effectively in the high school classroom.
Academic text (1996) -
The ninety-four-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate had been hospitalized for nearly three weeks.
Synonyms
A person famous for important achievements in a field
A person who gets an award for good work or service
A person or group that receives an award
Compounds
- Literature
A poet officially chosen to represent a country or town and write poems for special events
How Honored
Surface Forms
Etymology
Laureate comes from the Latin laurus, meaning 'laurel', the leaf put on a crown for winners in ancient times. So a laureate is a person who has been honored for great achievement, like someone given a laurel crown for their work.