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poet laureate
Word definitions for poet laureate in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Laureate \Lau"re*ate\, a. [L. laureatus, fr. laurea laurel tree, fr. laureus of laurel, fr. laurus laurel: cf. F. laur['e]at. Cf. Laurel .] Crowned, or decked, with laurel. --Chaucer. To strew the laureate hearse where Lycid lies. --Milton. Soft on ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A poet laureate (plural: poets laureate ) is a poet officially appointed by a government or conferring institution, who is often expected to compose poems for special events and occasions. The Italians Albertino Mussato and Francesco Petrarca were the first ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 A poet officially appointed by a government, often expected to compose poems for state occasions and other government events 2 (context obsolete English) One who received an honorable degree in grammar, including poetry and rhetoric, at the English ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Later he became poet laureate of the United States. ▪ Morris wrote endlessly and was even offered the post of poet laureate .
Usage examples of poet laureate.
He agreed that he would be present, but then, prompted by God knows what evil spirit of vanity, he began to make conditions: he would appear, and he would speak a tribute to Irving if the Poet Laureate would write one.
So Sir John, with the bit between his teeth, approached the Poet Laureate himself, and the Poet Laureate said he would have to think about it.
Earth's poet laureate then brought a rock down hard on the top of the burnoose, doubtless collecting much bad karma but not looking too worried about it.
In my opnion, he was the greatest poet Britain ever produced, should've been Poet Laureate, the way he understood people and the military—.
He brought with him three great rolled parchments, with seals and ribbons and everything in order: and these were Jurgen's pardon and Jurgen's nomination as Poet Laureate of Philistia and Jurgen's appointment as Mathematician Royal.
The left's Poet Laureate Lattimore was hauled out of irrelevance by President Roosevelt - on the recommendation of Soviet agent Currie - and sent to advise Chiang Kai-shek from 1941 to 1942.