different between garland vs laurel

English

Etymology

From Middle English garland, garlaunde, gerland, from Old French garlande, garlaunde, gerlande, guerlande (compare French guirlande), from Frankish *wierl?n, *wieral?n, a frequentative form of Frankish *wier?n (“to adorn, bedeck”), from *wiera (“a gold thread”), akin to Old High German wieren (“to adorn”), Old High German wiara (“gold thread”). More at wire.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /????l?nd/

Noun

garland (plural garlands)

1. A wreath, especially one of plaited flowers or leaves, worn on the body or draped as a decoration.

   • Bestow a Garland only on a Bier

2. An accolade or mark of honour.
3. (mining) A metal gutter placed round a mineshaft on the inside, to catch water running down inside the shaft and run it into a drainpipe.
4. The crown of a monarch.
   • 1569, Richard Grafton, A Chronicle at Large

     [she] joyfully receyued and welcommed mee, as the onely type and garland of her noble stirpe and linage

5. (dated) A book of extracts in prose or poetry; an anthology.
   • 1765, Thomas Percy, Reliques of Ancient English Poetry

     They [ballads] began to be collected into little miscellanies under the name of garlands.

6. The top; the thing most prized.
7. (nautical) A sort of netted bag used by sailors to keep provisions in.
8. (nautical) A grommet or ring of rope lashed to a spar for convenience in handling.

Translations

See also

• chaplet

Verb

garland (third-person singular simple present garlands, present participle garlanding, simple past and past participle garlanded)

1. (transitive) To deck or ornament something with a garland
2. (transitive) To form something into a garland

Anagrams

• Ragland

English

Etymology

From Middle English lorrer, Anglo-Norman lorer, from Old French lorier, from lor, from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l??.?l/, /?l???.?l/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?l??.?l/
• Rhymes: -???l

Noun

laurel (countable and uncountable, plural laurels)

1. Laurus nobilis, an evergreen shrub having aromatic leaves of a lanceolate shape, with clusters of small, yellowish white flowers in their axils.
2. A crown of laurel.
3. (figuratively, chiefly in the plural) Honor, distinction, fame.

   to win laurels; to crown with laurels

4. (botany) Any plant of the family Lauraceae.
5. (botany) Any of various plants of other families that resemble laurels.
6. (historical) An English gold coin made in 1619, and so called because the king's head on it was crowned with laurel.

Derived terms

Translations

Verb

laurel (third-person singular simple present laurels, present participle laureling or laurelling, simple past and past participle laureled or laurelled)

1. (transitive) To decorate with laurel, especially with a laurel wreath.
2. (transitive) To enwreathe.
3. (transitive, informal) To award top honours to.

See also

• Laurel and Hardy

References

• laurel at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• allure

Spanish

Etymology

Via Old Occitan laurier, ultimately from Latin laurus (“laurel”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lau??el/, [lau???el]

Noun

laurel m (plural laureles)

1. (botany) laurel

Derived terms

• dormirse en los laureles
• laurel alejandrino
• laurel cerezo
• laurel real
• laurel rosa

Related terms

• laurear