guerdon

İngilizce

Farklı yazılışlar

• gerdon (eskimiş)

Köken

Orta İngilizce guerdon, guerdoun, gardone, o da fro guerdon, guerredon, guarredon, werdon, o da Orta Latince widerdonum (widerdōnum), o da *widerlonum (widerlōnum)’un değişmiş şekli, o da Batı Cermence (bu yüzden Eski Yüksek Almanca widarlōn, Eski İngilizce wiþerlēan), kelimesi kelimesine ‘geri ödeme’. İkinci bölümü Latince dōnum (“hediye”) kelimesinde asimile olmuştur.

Söyleniş

• (BK ağzı) IPA^(anahtar): ˈɡəː.dən
• (ABD ağzı) IPA^(anahtar): ˈɡɝ.dən

• dinle (ABD)

  (dosya)

• Heceleme: don

Ad

guerdon (çoğulu guerdons)

1. (edebî) A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade.
   • 1567 Arthur Golding: Ovid's Metamorphoses Bk. 2 lines 361-3

     Is this the guerdon wherewithall ye quite my fruitfulnesse?

     Is this the honor that ye gave for my plenteousnesse

     And dutie done with true intent?

   • 1819, Walter Scott, Ivanhoe

     "That will I do blithely," replied the Pilgrim, "and without guerdon; my oath, for a time, prohibits me from touching gold."

   • Şablon:quote-journal
   • 1936, Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind, ch.15

     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.

Eylem

guerdon

1. (geçişli) Böyle bir mükâfat vermek.

Anagramlar

• go under, grounde, undergo, ungored