| Guerdon |  |
| verb | 1. Give a reward to (someone). |
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| noun | 1. A reward or recompense. |
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 | | "As a guerdon for his community service, Embry received a small scholarship." | | "Barbara Kingsolver received the 2023 Pulitzer Prize in fiction as a guerdon for 'Demon Copperhead,' a retelling of 'David Copperfield.'" | | "You should guerdon the committee for their work in putting together the banquet with such short notice." |
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 | | French, mid-14th century |
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 | | "Guerdon" is a loanword from Old French, where it meant "recompense," and the French word "guerdon" has ties to "widarlōn" in Old High German and "wiþerlēan" in Old English — both meaning "reward." "Guerdon" was more frequently used in English as a literary or poetic synonym, including in the works of Chaucer, Shakespeare, and Tennyson. ... |  |
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