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Definition of Laurel wreath
1. Noun. An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event.
Generic synonyms: Accolade, Award, Honor, Honour, Laurels
Specialized synonyms: Congressional Medal Of Honor, Medal Of Honor, Distinguished Service Medal, Distinguished Service Cross, Navy Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal, Silver Star, Silver Star Medal, Bronze Star, Bronze Star Medal, Order Of The Purple Heart, Purple Heart, Oak Leaf Cluster, Victoria Cross, Distinguished Conduct Medal, Distinguished Service Order, Croix De Guerre, Medaille Militaire
Derivative terms: Decorate, Medalist, Medallist
2. Noun. (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory.
Generic synonyms: Chaplet, Coronal, Garland, Lei, Wreath
Geographical relationships: Ellas, Greece, Hellenic Republic
Category relationships: Antiquity
Definition of Laurel wreath
1. Noun. A wreath worn on the head as a symbol of victory. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Laurel Wreath
Literary usage of Laurel wreath
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1919)
"It was but a short step from the carrying of laurel for purpose of inspiration
to the crowning of the inspired with laurel, and the laurel wreath evolved ..."
2. Principles of Economics by Frank William Taussig (1921)
"The love of distinction; can it be satisfied by the laurel wreath? Mixture of
higher and lower aspects in the love of distinction. ..."
3. Diary of the American Revolution: From Newspapers and Original Documents by Frank Moore (1860)
"... (after the knights had approached the pavilion in which were the general and
the ladies,) holding a laurel wreath in his hand, with the following ..."
4. New Englander and Yale Review by Edward Royall Tyler, William Lathrop Kingsley, George Park Fisher, Timothy Dwight (1892)
"The laurel wreath, or Affection's Keepsake. Original Prose and Poetry. Second edition.
TP Collins, New York, 1844. THIS is a neat little volume, ..."
5. The New Englander (1843)
"The laurel wreath, or Affection's Keepsake. Original Prose and Poetry. Second edition.
TP Collins, New York, 1844. THIS is a neat little volume, ..."
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