LAUREL WREATH

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does laurel wreath mean? 

• LAUREL WREATH (noun)
  The noun LAUREL WREATH has 2 senses:

1. an award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

2. (antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory

  Familiarity information: LAUREL WREATH used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LAUREL WREATH (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event

Classified under:

Nouns denoting communicative processes and contents

Synonyms:

decoration; laurel wreath; medal; medallion; palm; ribbon

Hypernyms ("laurel wreath" is a kind of...):

accolade; award; honor; honour; laurels (a tangible symbol signifying approval or distinction)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "laurel wreath"):

Congressional Medal of Honor; Medal of Honor (the highest U.S. military decoration awarded for bravery and valor in action 'above and beyond the call of duty')

Distinguished Service Medal (a United States military decoration for meritorious service in wartime duty of great responsibility)

Distinguished Service Cross (a United States Army decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy)

Navy Cross (a United States Navy decoration for extraordinary heroism against an armed enemy)

Distinguished Flying Cross (a United States Air Force decoration for heroism while participating in an aerial flight)

Air Medal (a United States Air Force decoration for meritorious achievement while participating in an aerial flight)

Silver Star; Silver Star Medal (a United States military decoration for gallantry in action)

Bronze Star; Bronze Star Medal (a United States military decoration awarded for meritorious service (except in aerial flight))

Order of the Purple Heart; Purple Heart (a United States military decoration awarded to any member of the armed forces who is wounded in action)

Oak Leaf Cluster (a United States military decoration consisting of bronze or silver oak leaves and acorns awarded to anyone who has won a given medal before)

Victoria Cross (a British military decoration for gallantry)

Distinguished Conduct Medal (a British military decoration for distinguished conduct in the field)

Distinguished Service Order (a British military decoration for special service in action)

Croix de Guerre (a French military decoration for gallantry)

Medaille Militaire (a French military decoration)

Sense 2

Meaning:

(antiquity) a wreath of laurel foliage worn on the head as an emblem of victory

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Synonyms:

bay wreath; laurel; laurel wreath

Hypernyms ("laurel wreath" is a kind of...):

chaplet; coronal; garland; lei; wreath (flower arrangement consisting of a circular band of foliage or flowers for ornamental purposes)

Domain category:

antiquity (the historic period preceding the Middle Ages in Europe)

Domain region:

Ellas; Greece; Hellenic Republic (a republic in southeastern Europe on the southern part of the Balkan peninsula; known for grapes and olives and olive oil)