Definition of "Laurel"

Laurel

noun
plural Laurels
1. (Mormonism) Formerly a 16- to 17-year-old participant in the Young Women organization of the LDS Church.
proper noun
1. A female or male given name from English from the laurel plant.
  Quotations
  "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."
  1972, Eudora Welty, The Optimist's Daughter, Random House, page 27
2. A surname from Spanish.
3. A municipality of the Philippines; named for Miguel Laurel.
4. A neighbourhood of Edmonton, Alberta.
5. A number of places in the United States:
  1. A ghost town in Santa Cruz County, California.
  2. A neighborhood of Oakland, California.
  3. A town in Delaware; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
  4. A census-designated place in Florida.
  5. A town in Indiana; named for the city in Maryland.
  6. A city in Iowa; named for the community in Ohio.
  7. A city in Maryland.
  8. A city in and one of the two county seats of Jones County, Mississippi; named for the laurel thickets in the area.
  9. A city in Montana; named for the laurel bushes growing in the area.
  10. A city in Nebraska; named for early settler Laura Martin.
  11. A hamlet in New York.
  12. An unincorporated community in Ohio.
  13. An unincorporated community in Oregon; named for the trees growing in the area, thought to be laurels (later identified as madrones).
  14. An unincorporated community in Tennessee.
  15. A census-designated place in Virginia.
  16. An unincorporated community in Washington.
  17. An unincorporated community in West Virginia.
  18. A river flowing from Lake, Kentucky into the Cumberland at Corbin, Kentucky.