Laurel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An evergreen shrub of species Laurus nobilis, having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.

   “Laurel leaves were used in the Orient to promote amatory exercise.”

2. isim A crown of laurel.
3. isim Honor, distinction, fame.

   “to win laurels”

4. isim Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
5. isim Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
6. isim An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.
7. fiil To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.

   “Windows peered from the spaces between the columns, which rose to hold up the large portico laureling the home with chiseled, decorative wreaths and curving spirals.”

8. fiil To enwreathe.

   “It wasn't hot this late in the year, and the sun was low in the southern sky, bracketed by pines and nearly hidden by a tree line laureling a trailer park.”

9. fiil To award top honours to.

   “In this regiment there was a young corporal, a native of Little K . He was laurelled and decorated more than many of his companions, for he excelled them all in courage, coolness, and daring. In one thing more he also excelled them — he was cruel, he was dissipated, and he was vicious in his tastes.”

10. isim Formerly, a participant aged sixteen or seventeen years old in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
11. özel isim A female or male given name from English from the laurel plant.

    “"What on earth made Becky give you a name like that?" she'd asked Laurel, on that first occasion. "It's the state flower of West Virginia," Laurel told her, smiling. "Where my mother came from."”

12. özel isim A surname from Spanish.
13. özel isim A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
14. özel isim A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
15. özel isim A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.
16. özel isim A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
17. özel isim A town in Delaware; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
18. özel isim A census-designated place in Florida.
19. özel isim A town in Indiana; named for the city in Maryland.
20. özel isim A city in Iowa; named for the community in Ohio.
21. özel isim A city in Maryland.
22. özel isim A city in and one of the two county seats of Jones County, Mississippi; named for the laurel thickets in the area.
23. özel isim A city in Montana; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
24. özel isim A city in Nebraska; named for early settler Laura Martin.
25. özel isim A hamlet in New York.
26. özel isim An unincorporated community in Ohio.
27. özel isim An unincorporated community in Oregon; named for the trees growing in the area, thought to be laurels (later identified as madrones).
28. özel isim An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
29. özel isim A census-designated place in Virginia.
30. özel isim An unincorporated community in Washington.