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==English==
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===Alternative forms===
* {{alter|en|gerdon||obsolete}}

===Etymology===
From {{inh|en|enm|guerdon}}, {{m|enm|guerdoun}}, {{m|enm|gardone}}, from {{der|en|fro|guerdon}}, {{m|fro|guerredon}}, {{m|fro|guarredon}}, {{m|fro|werdon}}, from {{der|en|ML.|widerdonum|widerdōnum}}, alteration of {{m|la|*widerlonum|widerlōnum}}, from West Germanic (whence {{cog|goh|widarlon|widarlōn}}, {{cog|ang|wiþerlēan}}), literally ‘back-payment’, with the second element assimilated to Latin {{m|la|donum|dōnum|gift}}.

===Pronunciation===
* {{enPR|gûrʹdn}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈɡəː.dən/|a=UK}}
* {{IPA|en|/ˈɡɝ.dən/|a=GA}}
* {{audio|en|en-us-guerdon.ogg|a=US}}
* {{hyphenation|en|guer|don}}

===Noun===
{{en-noun}}

# {{lb|en|now|_|literary}} A [[reward]], [[prize]] or [[recompense]] for a [[service]]; an [[accolade]].
#* {{quote-text|en|year=c. 1366|author=w:Geoffrey Chaucer|title=The Romaunt of the Rose|section=ll. 2607-10
|passage=For would she of her gentlenesse,<br>Withouten more, me ones kesse,<br>It were to me a great '''guerdoon'''.<br>Release of all my passion {{…}}}}
#* {{RQ:Ovid Golding Metamorphosis|2|lines=361–63|text=Is this the '''guerdon''' wherewithall ye quite my fruitfulnesse?<br>Is this the honor that ye gave for my plenteousnesse<br>And dutie done with true intent?}}
#* {{RQ:Shakespeare Much Ado About Nothing|V|iii|text=Done to death by slanderous tongues<br>Was the Hero that here lies:<br>Death, in '''guerdon''' of her wrongs,<br>Gives her fame which never dies.}}
#* {{RQ:Spenser Faerie Queene|I|xv|text=He hearkned, and did stay from further harmes,<br>To gayne so goodly''' guerdon''', as she spake {{…}}}}
#* {{RQ:Milton Poems|poem=Lycidas|passage=Fame is the spur that the clear spirit doth raise<br>(That last infirmity of noble mind)<br>To scorn delights and live laborious days;<br>But the fair '''guerdon''' when we hope to find,<br>And think to burst out into sudden blaze,<br>Comes the blind Fury with th'abhorred shears,<br>And slits the thin-spun life.}}
#* {{quote-book|en|year=1782|author=w:William Cowper|title=Poems by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq.|chapter=Charity
|passage=Verse, like the laurel its immortal meed,<br>Should be the '''guerdon''' of a noble deed}}
#* {{RQ:Scott Ivanhoe|text="That will I do blithely," replied the Pilgrim, "and without '''guerdon'''; my oath, for a time, prohibits me from touching gold."}}
#* {{quote-journal|en|author=“G.”|title=The Dukedom (from ‘The News of Literature and Fashion, Science and Art.’)|journal=The Spirit of the Times; or, Essence of the Periodicals; Concentrating Every Week, All that is Worthy (as Strictly Regarding the Time) of Being Preserved, from the Whole of Our Newspapers, Magazines, &c.|location=London|publisher=Printed by Milne, Banfield, and Duckworth [...] for J. Scott|date=22 April 1826|volume=I|issue=XXIX|page=436, column 1|pageurl=https://books.google.com/books?id=JhAbAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA436|oclc=68226152|passage=I had some faint recollection of having a penny-piece in my waistcoat pocket, and, pleased with the service he had rendered to us, I gave it him as his '''guerdon'''. "Thank ye, sir—thank ye, sir—thank ye, sir," he cried, and immediately returned to his station near the footway.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1840|author=w:Robert Browning|title=Sordello|section=Book IV
|passage="Here, minstrel, drive bad thoughts away! Sing! Take<br>"My glove for '''guerdon'''!"}}
#* {{RQ:Thackeray Pendennis||passage=You treat me like a slave, and bid me bow to my master! Is this the '''guerdon''' of a free maiden—is this the price of a life’s passion?|73}}
#* {{Q|en|{{w|Cecil Spring Rice|Cecil Arthur Spring Rice}}|Poems|“To the American People”|quote=Sons of honour, nobly fathered, scions of the sturdy brood,</br>Who from age to age have gathered strength and duty in the blood,</br>Strength to bear the distressed burden, duty which has cost them dear—</br>Wounds for wage and death for '''guerdon'''—Lo! the final hour is here.</br>{{…}}|year=1917|refn={{ref|group=en|{{cite-book|year=1920|title=Poems|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-FYt-X8_pa0C&pg=PA174|pages=174–175|oclc=6553226|author=Cecil Arthur Spring Rice|authorlink=Cecil Spring Rice|publisher=Longmans, Green & Co.|location=London}}}}}}
#* {{RQ:Mitchell Gone with the Wind|chapter=15|passage=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.}}

====Translations====
{{trans-top|a [[reward]], [[prize]] or [[recompense]]}}
* Bulgarian: {{t+|bg|награда|f|sc=Cyrl}}, {{t+|bg|възнаграждение|n|sc=Cyrl}}
* Czech: {{t+|cs|odměna|f}}
* Galician: {{t|gl|galardón|m}}
* Hungarian: {{t+|hu|jutalom}}, {{t+|hu|díj}}
* Russian: {{t+|ru|награ́да|f}}, {{t+|ru|пре́мия|f}}, {{t+|ru|приз|m}}
* Spanish: {{t+|es|galardón|m}}
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===Verb===
{{en-verb}}

# {{lb|en|transitive}} To give such a reward to.
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1593|author=w:Christopher Marlowe|title=The Massacre at Paris|section=I:ii
|passage=And when thou see'st the Admiral ride by,<br>Discharge thy musket, and perform his death;<br>And then I'll '''guerdon''' thee with store of crowns.}}
#* {{quote-text|en|year=1847|author=w:Alfred, Lord Tennyson|title=The Princess|section=Book I
|passage={{…}} him we gave a costly bribe<br>To '''guerdon''' silence {{…}}}}

====Derived terms====
{{col2|en
|guerdonable
|guerdonless}}

===References===
<references group="en"/>

===Further reading===
* {{R:OneLook}}
* {{R:Lexico|pos=n}}
* {{R:Century 1911}}
* {{R:Webster 1913}}
* {{R:Century 1914|entry=guerdon|volume=II|page=2648|columns=1–2}}

===Anagrams===
* {{anagrams|en|a=degnoru|go under|grounde|undergo|ungored}}

==French==

===Noun===
{{fr-noun|m}}

# {{lb|fr|archaic}} [[reward]]

===Further reading===
* {{R:fr:TLFi}}

==Old French==

===Noun===
{{fro-noun|m}}

# {{alternative form of|fro|guerredon}}