Noun: laurel
| Singular | laurel |
| Plural | laurels |
Sample Sentences
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Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise. [1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 136:]
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to win laurels
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to crown with laurels
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I was semi-famous; I had been something, but as one worthy critic remarked: past laurels fade fast. [2017, Fiona Lewis, Mistakes Were Made (Some in French), Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 3:]
Nouns inflected like laurel
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Inherited from Middle English laurer, laurel, from Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from Vulgar Latin *laurārius, from Latin laurus (“laurel”). Doublet of loureiro. See: Middle English Nouns '
laurer', Middle English Nouns '
laurer', Latin Nouns '
laurus'.