guerdon
pronunciation
How to pronounce guerdon in British English:
UK ['gɜ:dən]
How to pronounce guerdon in American English:
US ['gɜdən]
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- Noun:
- a reward or payment
Word Origin
- guerdon (n.)
- "reward, recompense" (now only poetic), late 14c., from Old French guerdon, guerredon "reward, recompense, payment," from Medieval Latin widerdonum, from Old High German widarlon "recompense," from widar "against," from Proto-Germanic *withro- (see with) + lon "reward," from Proto-Germanic *launam, from PIE *lau- "gain, profit" (see lucre). Compare Old English wiðerlean "requital, compensation." Form influenced in Medieval Latin by Latin donum "gift." Compare Spanish galardon, Italian guiderone.
Example
- 1. There is guerdon in patience and persistence head quarter .
- 2. The human organism achieved its highest purpose in love , that love must not be questioned , but must be accepted as the highest guerdon of life .
- 3. Melanie might have given him his new coat but this sash was her gift , her own secret guerdon for him to wear into battle , something that would make him remember her every time he looked at it .
- 4. She beseeches me to accept that new post , although that post guerdon isn 't liberal .
- 5. Even is after the treatment the zhi of the guerdon is obvious .