Meaning & use
laurel
An evergreen shrub whose leaves were woven into wreaths to honor victors and heroes.
See it in a sentence
The ancient Greeks crowned Olympic champions with a wreath of laurel leaves.
The chef planted a laurel bush near the kitchen for its fragrant leaves.
A note on using this word
Laurels, in the plural, often appears in the idiom rest on one's laurels, meaning to stop trying after an earlier success.
Words with a similar meaning
bay tree
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Another way to use it
2. noun
An honor or achievement, especially one earned in the past.
He was still living off the laurels of a novel he wrote decades ago.
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