laurels

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of laurel

   “Two mountain laurels were in bloom.”

2. (plural, plural-only)Honors. From the Ancient Greek practice of crowning victors with a branch from the laurel bush, sacred to Apollo.

   “Miss Phyllis Morgan, as the hapless heroine dressed in the shabbiest of clothes, appears in the midst of a gay and giddy throng; she apostrophises all and sundry there, including the villain, and has a magnificent scene which always brings down the house, and nightly adds to her histrionic laurels.”

3. (form-of, plural)plural of Laurel

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of laurel