laurels
laurels Lexical Profile
laurels Game Scores & Validity
• noun
Honors, accolades, or distinction awarded for a notable achievement, especially in the idioms 'rest on one's laurels' and 'look to one's laurels'.
"Despite winning the championship last season, the team refused to rest on its laurels and continued training rigorously."
Plural form of laurel: aromatic evergreen trees or shrubs of the family Lauraceae (especially the bay laurel, Laurus nobilis, native to the Mediterranean region) or various other shrubs with glossy, leathery foliage.
"The gardener planted a row of evergreen laurels along the stone wall to provide year-round privacy."
• verb
To crown with a laurel wreath or bestow honors and distinction upon (third-person singular simple present of laurel).
"The academy laurels its most distinguished poets at the annual ceremony."
• Rhymes for laurels
Word Origin & Etymology
From Middle English lorel, via Old French lorier from Latin laurus ('bay tree'). The figurative sense of 'honors' stems from the ancient Greek and Roman custom of crowning victors and poets with a wreath of bay laurel leaves.