Laurel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for LAUREL in dictionary:

VERB:
• to crown with a wreath of evergreen leaves, also LAUREATE
• honour by adorning with a laurel or presenting with an award
• crown with laurel
NOUN:
• any of a number of shrubs and other plants with dark green glossy leaves.
• an aromatic evergreen shrub related to the bay tree, several kinds of which form forests in tropical and warm countries.
• the foliage of the bay tree woven into a wreath or crown and worn on the head as an emblem of victory or mark of honour in classical times
• honour or praise for an achievement
• glossy-leaved shrub, bay tree
• An evergreen shrub, of the genus Laurus (L. nobilis), having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils; -- called also sweet bay.
• A crown of laurel; hence, honor; distinction; fame; -- especially in the plural; as, to win laurels.
• An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king\'s head on it was crowned with laurel.
• any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
• United States slapstick comedian (born in England) who played the scatterbrained and often tearful member of the Laurel and Hardy duo who made many films (1890-1965)
• (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory

Words related to LAUREL

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Words that contain LAUREL

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How to use LAUREL in a sentence

• In the admirable portrait, too, by Lely, he chose to be represented with the laurel in his hand.
• Cibber, in the mean time, was elevated to the laurel, and that by statesmen whom it was the fate of Pope to detest in secret, and yet not dare to attack in print.
• He is always represented in the Roman costume, with the imperial laurel on his brows, with kings kneeling, and presenting the keys of conquered cities.
• She led him round the laurel path and to the walk where the ivy grew so thickly.
• The birds tore the wren to pieces, the laurel dropping from its bill to the marble pavement of the floor below.
• Candles, laurel branches, evergreens, bits of red ribbon, and flags made the office very gay and attractive.
• The largest of these, at the end of the volume, is in armour, crowned with laurel, and holding a sword, looking toward the left.
• The slide through which the ribbon passes is a bronze bar ornamented with a laurel wreath, the symbol of victory.
• He sits there, the old painter, with a laurel crown.
• Then honor shall weave of the laurel a crown, That beauty shall bind on the brow of the brave.
• The men were allowed to go into the woods across the river, and bring boughs of hemlock, pine, and laurel, and of holly laden with bright berries.
• The Initiates wore garlands and crowns of myrtle and laurel.
• He reached the laurel bushes, where he dropped to the ground and lay quiet a few minutes.
• We came to it through laurel hedges, and passed on the way a magnificent cedar of Lebanon.
• Lying amid the wild laurel the lamb of the Gospel became visible again.
• The person who really triumphed was George Washington, although Fisher Ames, who won the immediate victory, deserved undying laurel.
• I went and hid myself at the bottom of the garden in a clump of laurel bushes.
• It was roofed in with green laurel boughs and seemed to be meant for a fold to shelter sheep and goats.
• In an Asiatic dress and crowned with laurel, he is pointing forward with his right hand, while with his left he holds the bridle of the magnificent charger on which he is mounted.
• Let us try that he may obtain the laurel of victory instead of the odium of defeat.

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