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reward

noun
/ɹɪˈwɔːd/UK/ɹɪˈwɔɹd/US

Etymology

From Middle English rewarden, from Anglo-Norman rewarder (“to reward”), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”), from Old Northern French [Term?], from Frankish *wardōn (“to guard, keep”), from Proto-Germanic *wardōną (“to guard, defend”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, shelter, defend, guard, shut”). Cognate with Old Saxon wardōn (“to guard, provide for, protect”), Old English weardian (“to guard”), Old High German wartēn (“to watch, keep, look after”). More at ward. Piecewise doublet of regard. Displaced Old English lēanian. In this sense, displaced Old English ġieldan, whence Modern English yield.

  1. derived from reward
  2. inherited from reward

Definitions

  1. Something of value given in return for an act.

    • For catching the thief, you'll get a nice reward.

  2. A prize promised for a certain deed or catch

    • The rewards for bringing in badly wanted criminals are printed on 'dead or alive' posters.

  3. one's place in heaven

    one's place in heaven; God's judgment in the afterlife; death

    • And behold, I come quickly, and my reward is with mee, to giue euery man according as his worke shall be.
    • Your daddy ever tell you how Uncle Mac come to his reward?
    • When I get my reward my work will all be done / And I will sit back in my chair between the Father and the Son / No more holes to fill and no more rocks to break / And no more loading boxes on the trucks for someone else to take
  4. ›+ 4 more definitions

    1. The result of an action, whether good or bad.

      • Is this the reward I get for telling the truth: to be put in jail?
      • Christian Benteke's first-half goal was just reward for Villa's undoubted superiority but Bradford managed to survive without further damage until half-time, before scoring the goal that takes them to Wembley for the first time since 1996.

    2. To give a reward to or for.

      • Why are you rewarding the child for misbehaving?
      • Why are you rewarding that bad behaviour?

    3. To be a recompense for.

      • Decorations are meant to reward the most meritous acts and services.

    4. To give (something) as a reward.

      • Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

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Derived

after-reward, a good deed is its own reward, antireward, extrinsic reward, intrinsic reward, just reward, reward card, rewardful, reward hacking, rewardless, reward system, superreward, virtue is its own reward, misreward, nonrewarded, overreward, overrewarded, rewardability, rewardable, rewardedly, rewardedness, rewardee, rewarder, rewarding, superrewarded, unrewarded

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at reward. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at reward. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at reward

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA