English Online Dictionary. What means award? What does award mean?
English
Etymology
From Middle English awarden, from Anglo-Norman awarder, from Medieval Latin *exwardare, from Latin ex (“out”) + Medieval Latin wardare, guardare (“to observe, regard, guard”); see ward, guard, regard.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /əˈwɔːd/
- (General American) IPA(key): /əˈwɔɹd/
- Rhymes: -ɔː(ɹ)d
Noun
award (plural awards)
- (law) A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
- (law) The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
- (academia) Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
- A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
- (Australia, NZ, industrial relations) A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial award.
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Verb
award (third-person singular simple present awards, present participle awarding, simple past and past participle awarded)
- (intransitive) To determine; to make or grant an award.
- Synonym: crown
- (transitive) To give (an award).
- Synonym: bestow
- (transitive) To give (a person) an award.
- (transitive, law) To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
- Synonym: adjudge
- (transitive, British, education) (in an examination) To give marks for a correct answer.
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Further reading
- “award”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “award”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
Anagrams
- Warda, adraw