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# laurels

«laurels» in Mova's school dictionary: **the leaves or bushes of the laurel plant** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (plural only)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Laurels are the leaves or bushes of the laurel plant. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laurels/#m1)

2) Laurels means honour and praise for a success (rest on one's laurels: be content with past success). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laurels/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in stories laurels are plants in a garden where people sit; in everyday talk to win laurels means to be praised

### examples

- Plant these two laurels by the gate. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laurels/#x1)
- They sat under the laurels in the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laurels/#x2)
- He won laurels for his singing. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laurels/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «laurels» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/laurels/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.