award
Listen:Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
award/əˈwɔːd/
▶verb give as an official payment, reward, or prize. ▶noun a prize, payment, etc. awarded.
– derivatives
awardee noun,
awarder noun.
awardee noun,
awarder noun.
– origin ME: from Anglo-Norman Fr. awarder, var. of OFr. esguarder ‘consider, ordain’, from es- (from L. ex ‘thoroughly’) + guarder ‘watch (over)’, of Gmc origin.
'award' also found in these Oxford entries:
Academy award
- adjudge
- assay office
- blue flag
- Brownie
- citation
- crown
- decorate
- decoration
- full marks
- gift
- honoree
- laureate
- let
- nominate
- Oscar
- penalty area
- place
- poisoned chalice
- proxime accessit
- Pulitzer Prize
- red ribbon
- sweep
- triple crown
- undecorated
