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LAUREL
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Irregular inflected forms: laurelled , laurelling
I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
(antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory
Synonyms:
bay wreath; laurel; laurel wreath
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("laurel" is a kind of...):
chaplet; coronal; garland; lei; wreath (flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes)
Domain category:
antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)
Domain region:
Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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)
Synonyms:
Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel; Laurel; Stan Laurel
Classified under:
Instance hypernyms:
comedian; comic (a professional performer who tells jokes and performs comical acts)
Holonyms ("Laurel" is a member of...):
Laurel and Hardy (United States slapstick comedy duo who made many films together)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("laurel" is a kind of...):
angiospermous tree; flowering tree (any tree having seeds and ovules contained in the ovary)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "laurel"):
bay; bay laurel; bay tree; Laurus nobilis; true laurel (small Mediterranean evergreen tree with small blackish berries and glossy aromatic leaves used for flavoring in cooking; also used by ancient Greeks to crown victors)
camphor tree; Cinnamomum camphora (large evergreen tree of warm regions whose aromatic wood yields camphor)
Ceylon cinnamon; Ceylon cinnamon tree; Cinnamomum zeylanicum; cinnamon (tropical Asian tree with aromatic yellowish-brown bark; source of the spice cinnamon)
cassia; cassia-bark tree; Cinnamomum cassia (Chinese tree with aromatic bark; yields a less desirable cinnamon than Ceylon cinnamon)
Cinnamomum loureirii; Saigon cinnamon (tropical southeast Asian tree with aromatic bark; yields a bark used medicinally)
laurel-tree; Persea borbonia; red bay (small tree of southern United States having dark red heartwood)
sassafras; Sassafras albidum; sassafras tree (yellowwood tree with brittle wood and aromatic leaves and bark; source of sassafras oil; widely distributed in eastern North America)
California bay tree; California laurel; California olive; mountain laurel; Oregon myrtle; pepperwood; sassafras laurel; spice tree; Umbellularia californica (Pacific coast tree having aromatic foliage and small umbellate flowers followed by olivelike fruit; yields a hard tough wood)
Holonyms ("laurel" is a member of...):
family Lauraceae; Lauraceae; laurel family (a family of Lauraceae)
Context examples:
The laurels at Maple Grove are in the same profusion as here, and stand very much in the same way—just across the lawn; and I had a glimpse of a fine large tree, with a bench round it, which put me so exactly in mind!
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
Jack Wilson, a post-doctoral researcher at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Maryland, led a team that reprocessed data collected from 2002 to 2009 by the neutron spectrometer instrument on NASA's Mars Odyssey spacecraft.
(A Fresh Look at Older Data Yields a Surprise Near the Martian Equator, NASA)
Mission controllers at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory (APL) in Laurel, Maryland, have confirmed NASA’s MErcury Surface, Space ENvironment, GEochemistry, and Ranging (MESSENGER) spacecraft impacted the surface of Mercury, as anticipated, at 3:26 p.m. EDT.
(NASA Completes MESSENGER Mission with Expected Impact on Mercury's Surface, NASA)
Examining data collected by the ultraviolet spectrograph and energetic-particle detector instruments aboard the Jupiter-orbiting Juno spacecraft, a team led by Barry Mauk of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, Maryland, observed signatures of powerful electric potentials, aligned with Jupiter's magnetic field, that accelerate electrons toward the Jovian atmosphere at energies up to 400,000 electron volts.
(Jupiter's Auroras Present a Powerful Mystery, NASA)
"Jane," he recommenced, as we entered the laurel walk, and slowly strayed down in the direction of the sunk fence and the horse-chestnut, "Thornfield is a pleasant place in summer, is it not?"
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Through the gate—now to the right among the laurels.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She had embroidered a white Welcome upon a blue ground, with an anchor in red upon each side, and a border of laurel leaves; and this was to hang upon the two lilac bushes which flanked the cottage door.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was a poky, little, shabby-genteel place, where four lines of dingy two-storied brick houses looked out into a small railed-in enclosure, where a lawn of weedy grass and a few clumps of faded laurel bushes made a hard fight against a smoke-laden and uncongenial atmosphere.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A considerable flight of steps landed them in the wilderness, which was a planted wood of about two acres, and though chiefly of larch and laurel, and beech cut down, and though laid out with too much regularity, was darkness and shade, and natural beauty, compared with the bowling-green and the terrace.
(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)
And what ailed the chestnut tree? it writhed and groaned; while wind roared in the laurel walk, and came sweeping over us.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
