Definitionadj. worthy of the greatest honor or distinction
Last update: June 8, 2015
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I went to listen to a talk by a noble laureate. [Please select]
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Faringdon House, close to the church, was built by Henry James Pye (1745-1813), poet laureate from 1790 to 1813, who also caused to be planted the conspicuous group of fir-trees on the hill east of the town called Faringdon Clump, or locally (like other similar groups) the Folly. [Please select]
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[22] Pindar's verses were so popular that he became, as it were, the "poet laureate" of Greece. [Please select]
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He was appointed poet laureate in 1813, and received a pension of 300 Pounds a year from the government in 1835. [Please select]
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In England the poet laureate's office is filled by appointment of the lord chamberlain. [Please select]
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Tennyson was made poet laureate in 1850, and was regarded as the foremost living poet of England. [Please select]
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The poet laureate added little to his fame by his previous dramatic work, "Queen Mary"; he will gain less by this. [Please select]
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(96) John Dryden, 1631-1703, was a noted English writer, who was made poet laureate by James II. [Please select]
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