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laureatship

laureatship is the alternative form of laureateship.

Meaning of laureateship

Noun

laureateship (usually uncountable, plural laureateships)

  1. (usually) 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 laureatship

plurallaureatships

Questions about laureatship

What is laureatship the alternative form of?
Laureatship is the alternative form of laureateship.

Words near laureatship in the dictionary

  1. laureateship
  2. laureateships
  3. laureating
  4. laureation
  5. laureations
  6. laureatship
  7. laureatships
  8. Laureen
  9. laurel
  10. Laurel and Hardy
  11. Laurel Canyon

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laureatship (page history and authors); laureateship (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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