Laurier

[ lawr-ee-ey; French law-ryey ]

noun

1. Sir Wil·frid [wil, -frid, weel-, freed], 1841–1919, Canadian statesman: prime minister 1896–1911.

Laurier

/ ˈlɒrɪə /

noun

1. LaurierSir Wilfrid18411919MCanadianPOLITICS: statesmanPOLITICS: prime minister Sir Wilfrid. 1841–1919, Canadian Liberal statesman; the first French-Canadian prime minister (1896–1911)

Example Sentences

A staff member at the Château Laurier hotel first noticed the photograph had been replaced on 19 August, 2022.

From BBC

"Once in Ottawa Police custody, the portrait will be ready for the last step of its journey home to the Fairmont Château Laurier, where it will once again be displayed as a notable historic portrait," police said.

From BBC

“Reptiles are massively understudied,” said Noam Miller, a comparative psychologist at Wilfrid Laurier University in Ontario, Canada, and an author of the paper, published on Wednesday in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B. “There’s a bias out there that they’re these boring, not very cognitive animals, and that’s completely wrong. That’s one of the reasons why we got very interested in studying them and showing the complex cognitive things they can do.”

From New York Times

"This continued smouldering through the winter, I think, is very alarming to see", especially after Canada's record-shattering wildfire season last year, said Jennifer Baltzer, a professor of biology at Wilfrid Laurier University and the Canada Research Chair in Forests and Global Change.

From BBC

However, in 2020, Morgan Skinner, a behavioral ecologist at Wilfrid Laurier University, and collaborators showed in laboratory experiments that captive garter snakes have “friends”—specific snakes whose company they prefer over others.

From Science Magazine