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"code": "gl",
"lang": "Galician",
"sense": "a reward, prize or recompense",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "galardón"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a reward, prize or recompense",
"word": "jutalom"
},
{
"code": "hu",
"lang": "Hungarian",
"sense": "a reward, prize or recompense",
"word": "díj"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "nagráda",
"sense": "a reward, prize or recompense",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "награ́да"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "prémija",
"sense": "a reward, prize or recompense",
"tags": [
"feminine"
],
"word": "пре́мия"
},
{
"code": "ru",
"lang": "Russian",
"roman": "priz",
"sense": "a reward, prize or recompense",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "приз"
},
{
"code": "es",
"lang": "Spanish",
"sense": "a reward, prize or recompense",
"tags": [
"masculine"
],
"word": "galardón"
}
],
"word": "guerdon"
}
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"English terms derived from Middle English",
"English terms derived from Old French",
"English terms inherited from Middle English",
"English verbs",
"Entries with translation boxes",
"Old High German links with redundant target parameters",
"Pages with 3 entries",
"Pages with entries",
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"Terms with Czech translations",
"Terms with Galician translations",
"Terms with Hungarian translations",
"Terms with Russian translations",
"Terms with Spanish translations"
],
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{
"word": "guerdonable"
},
{
"word": "guerdonless"
}
],
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"args": {
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"2": "enm",
"3": "guerdon"
},
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"name": "inh"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "fro",
"3": "guerdon"
},
"expansion": "Old French guerdon",
"name": "der"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ML.",
"3": "widerdonum",
"4": "widerdōnum"
},
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{
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"1": "goh",
"2": "widarlon",
"3": "widarlōn"
},
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"name": "cog"
},
{
"args": {
"1": "ang",
"2": "wiþerlēan"
},
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"name": "cog"
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"etymology_text": "From Middle English guerdon, guerdoun, gardone, from Old French guerdon, guerredon, guarredon, werdon, from Medieval Latin widerdōnum, alteration of widerlōnum, from West Germanic (whence Old High German widarlōn, Old English wiþerlēan), literally ‘back-payment’, with the second element assimilated to Latin dōnum (“gift”).",
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{
"form": "guerdons",
"tags": [
"present",
"singular",
"third-person"
]
},
{
"form": "guerdoning",
"tags": [
"participle",
"present"
]
},
{
"form": "guerdoned",
"tags": [
"participle",
"past"
]
},
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"form": "guerdoned",
"tags": [
"past"
]
}
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"guer‧don"
],
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"lang_code": "en",
"pos": "verb",
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"categories": [
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"English transitive verbs",
"Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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"examples": [
{
"ref": "1593, Christopher Marlowe, The Massacre at Paris, I:ii:",
"text": "And when thou see'st the Admiral ride by,\nDischarge thy musket, and perform his death;\nAnd then I'll guerdon thee with store of crowns.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1847, Alfred, Lord Tennyson, The Princess, Book I:",
"text": "[…] him we gave a costly bribe\nTo guerdon silence […]",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To give such a reward to."
],
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"(transitive) To give such a reward to."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
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{
"enpr": "gûrʹdn"
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡəː.dən/",
"tags": [
"UK"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈɡɝ.dən/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
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{
"tags": [
"obsolete"
],
"word": "gerdon"
}
],
"word": "guerdon"
}
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