Laurel
See also: laurel
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɒɹəl
Noun
Laurel (plural Laurels)
- (Mormonism) Formerly a 16- to 17-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
Related terms
- Beehive
- Mia Maid
Translations
16–17-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church
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Proper noun
Laurel
- A female given name from English from the laurel plant.
- 1972, Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, Random House, →ISBN, page 27:
- "What on earth made Becky give you a name like that?" she'd asked Laurel, on that first occasion.
"It's the state flower of West Virginia," Laurel told her, smiling. "Where my mother came from."
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- A surname from Spanish.
- A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
- A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
- A number of places in the United States:
- A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.
- A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
- A town in Delaware; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
- A census-designated place in Florida.
- A town in Indiana; named for the city in Maryland.
- A city in Iowa; named for the community in Ohio.
- A city in Maryland.
- A city in and one of the two county seats of Jones County, Mississippi; named for the laurel thickets in the area.
- A city in Montana; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
- A city in Nebraska; named for early settler Laura Martin.
- A hamlet in New York.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Ohio.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Oregon; named for the trees growing in the area, thought to be laurels (later identified as madrones).
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Tennessee.
- A census-designated place in Virginia.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in Washington.
- An unincorporatedcommunity in West Virginia.
- A river flowing from Lake, Kentucky into the Cumberland at Corbin, Kentucky.
Anagrams
- allure