Meaning of Laurel | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Formerly, a participant aged sixteen or seventeen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
   Mormonism
2. A female or male given name from English from the laurel plant.
3. An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
   countable, uncountable
4. A surname from Spanish.
5. A crown of laurel.
   countable, uncountable
6. A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
7. Honor, distinction, fame.
   countable, figuratively, in-plural, uncountable
8. A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
9. Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
   countable, uncountable
10. Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
    countable, uncountable
11. A number of places in the United States:
12. A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.
13. An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
    countable, historical, uncountable
14. A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
15. A town in Delaware; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
16. A census-designated place in Florida.
17. A town in Indiana; named for the city in Maryland.
18. A city in Iowa; named for the community in Ohio.
19. A city in Maryland.
20. A city in and one of the two county seats of Jones County, Mississippi; named for the laurel thickets in the area.
21. A city in Montana; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
22. A city in Nebraska; named for early settler Laura Martin.
23. A hamlet in New York.
24. An unincorporated community in Ohio.
25. An unincorporated community in Oregon; named for the trees growing in the area, thought to be laurels (later identified as madrones).
26. An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
27. A census-designated place in Virginia.
28. An unincorporated community in Washington.
29. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
30. A river flowing from Lake, Kentucky into the Cumberland at Corbin, Kentucky.

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Examples

“Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise.”

“to win laurels”

“to crown with laurels”

“I was semi-famous; I had been something, but as one worthy critic remarked: past laurels fade fast.”

“"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."”

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