laureateship
laureateship noun: the state, or office, of a laureate.
Noun
laureateship (usually uncountable, plural laureateships)
- The state, or office, of a laureate.
- Davenant, the last holder of the laureateship, had died two years previously, and Howell, the well known author of the Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ, and the late holder of the historiographership, four years before.1881, George Saintsbury, “Dryden”, in English Men of Letters
Forms of laureateship
| plural | laureateships |
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Origin of laureateship
From laureate + -ship.
Questions about laureateship
- What does laureateship mean?
- Laureateship means the state, or office, of a laureate.
- What part of speech is laureateship?
- Laureateship is a noun.
- What is the plural of laureateship?
- The plural of laureateship is laureateships.
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