Definitions for award

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Spelling: [uh-wawrd]

IPA: /əˈwɔrd/

Award is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 9 points.

You can make 35 anagrams from letters in award (aadrw).

Definitions for award

noun

1. something awarded, as a payment or medal.
2. Law. a decision after consideration; a judicial sentence. the decision of arbitrators on a matter submitted to them.

verb (used with object)

1. to give as due or merited; assign or bestow:
2. to bestow by judicial decree; assign or appoint by deliberate judgment, as in arbitration:

Origin of award

1250-1300; (v.) Middle English awarden Anglo-French awarder, equivalent to a- a-⁴ + warder ≪ Germanic; compare Old English weardian to guard, Examples for award

Instead of this, shall I choose what I well know to be evil, and award that?

The reader, however, cannot fail to award justice to the wrong-doers.

But I had won the British award, Best Foreign Actor, so I went.

His photography has won more than a hundred awards, including the prestigious Alfred Eisenstaedt award for Magazine Photography.

The time is ripe—and right—for action to begin that would divest Russia of the World Cup and award it to another nation.

The award surprised Lewis, but it also struck the right note.

We depart again upon your assurance that you cannot award us more.

Here, at the sixth award, let us make an end; all that remains is to set the crown on our discourse.

He declined to award £30 to Miss Manners for her taxi journey but awarded her £10 travel expenses.

The officials were vainly striving to quiet the tumult so they could award the prize.