award
Forms
- Plural
- awards
- present (v1)
- award
- past (v2)
- awarded
- past participle (v3)
- awarded
- present participle
- awarding
- 3rd person singular
- awards
Definitions
1.A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
2.The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
3.Funding that has been granted for the conduct of a research project.
4.A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit.
1.To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case.
- The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
- To review / The wrongful sentence, and award a new.
2.To determine; to make or grant an award.
- To assert its control, Vietnam has since established Spratly Island as a township in Truòng Sa district, organized local elections and tours in the Spratlys, and has continued to award oil exploration contracts.
3.To give (an award).
- He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.
4.To give (a person) an award.
- He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1689
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Uncommon
- General reading & writing
- Common
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
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.