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Guerdon [GUR-dn]

Part of speech: noun

Origin: Old French, 15th century

1. A reward or recompense.

Examples of guerdon in a sentence

"As a guerdon for his excellent grades, my brother got to go to Six Flags."

"Doris Lessing received the 2007 Nobel Prize in literature as a guerdon for her body of novels exploring the human experience."