laureate

Other forms of laureate

plural

laureates·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about laureate

What does laureate mean?

laureate means "someone honored for great achievements; figuratively someone crowned with a laurel wreath". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laureate?

laureate has 3 syllables: la-u-reate. The stress falls on "la". In IPA it is /ˈlɔɹiət/.

Is laureate a common word?

laureate is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with laureate?

1 word rhymes with laureate. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.