laurel

Other forms of laurel

plural

laurels·

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 laurel

What does laurel mean?

laurel means "any of various aromatic trees of the laurel family". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in laurel?

laurel has 2 syllables: lau-rel. The stress falls on "lau". In IPA it is /ˈlɔɹəl/.

What is another word for laurel?

Close synonyms include Stan Laurel, Arthur Stanley Jefferson Laurel, laurel wreath, bay wreath. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is laurel a common word?

laurel is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.