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Definition reward
Etymology 1
From Middle English reward, rewarde, from Old French reward (“reward”) (compare Old French regard, whence modern French regard, and also English regard through Middle French), from rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”) (compare Old French guarder); the Anglo-Norman forms are derived from Old Northern French variants of Old French, ultimately of Germanic (Frankish) origin. Compare regard, warden, guard. See more below.
Displaced native Middle English lean (“reward”), from Old English l?an (“reward”); Middle English meed, mede (“reward, meed, recompense”), from Old English m?d (“reward, meed, recompense”); Middle English schipe, schepe (“reward, wage”), from Old English scipe (“wages, payment, reward”).
Noun
reward (plural rewards)
- Something of value given in return for an act.
- A prize promised for a certain deed or catch
- The result of an action, whether good or bad.
Etymology 2
From Middle English rewarden, from Anglo-Norman rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder, whence modern French regarder, also English regard through Middle French), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”), from Old Northern French, from Frankish *ward?n (“to guard, keep”), from Proto-Germanic *ward?n? (“to guard, defend”), from Proto-Indo-European *ewerw?-, *werw?-, *wr?- (“to cover, shelter, defend, guard, shut”). Cognate with Old Saxon ward?n (“to guard, provide for, protect”), Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep”), Old High German wart?n (“to watch, keep, look after”). More at ward.
Verb
reward (third-person singular simple present rewards, present participle rewarding, simple past and past participle rewarded)
- (transitive) To give a reward to or for.
- (transitive) To recompense.
- (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) as a reward.
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