Definitions for "LAUREATE"
Keywords:  laurel, wreath, honor, poet, victory
Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every royal feast and singing-mute at every royal funeral. Of all incumbents of that high office, Robert Southey had the most notable knack at drugging the Samson of public joy and cutting his hair to the quick; and he had an artistic color-sense which enabled him so to blacken a public grief as to give it the aspect of a national crime.
Crowned, or decked, with laurel.
One crowned with laurel; a poet laureate.
Keywords:  nobel, award, activist, pris, honour
A person who has been presented with an award for some distinguished achievement; as, a Nobel laureate; the Pris de Rome laureate; the Music Director Laureate; the conductor laureate.
a Human Rights activist, who has been awarded for the work he/she has done in the past and still is working on the improvement of Human Rights in the country of origin
a recipient of an honour or award such as the Nobel Prize
In English, the word laureate has come to signify eminence or association with literary or military glory.