award
/əˈwɔɹd/ verb B1- To determine; to make or grant an award.
- To give (an award). · Four or five of these medals are awarded every year.· He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- To give (a person) an award. · He was awarded with the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case. · The arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
He/she/it awards · Past awarded · Past participle awarded · -ing form awarding
Verb forms
- Base form
- award
- He/she/it
- awards
- Past
- awarded
- Past participle
- awarded
- -ing form
- awarding
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I concluded that, by some singular chance, the owner of the winning horse must live in the same hotel as myself; but, as I entered my apartments, I beheld the very gold cup awarded as a prize to the unknown horse and rider.
“Come,” said Monte Cristo, “this cross seems to me to be wisely awarded.
“Everything,” he said, “proves me to be under the protection of some powerful person,—this sudden fortune, the facility with which I have overcome all obstacles, an unexpected family and an illustrious name awarded to me, gold showered down upon me, and the most splendid alliances about to be entered into.
Addresses were given, essays read, songs sung, the public award of diplomas, prizes and medals made.
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