different between medal vs reward

English

Etymology

From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Vulgar Latin *med?lia, dissimilated form of the unattested *medi?lia, neuter plural (taken for a feminine singular) of the adjective *medi?lis (“of the middle”), from Late Latin medi?le (“middle”), from Latin medius.

Pronunciation

• enPR: m?d?-?l, IPA^(key): /?m?d?l/
  • (UK) IPA^(key): [?m?d.??]
    • Homophone: meddle
  • (US) IPA^(key): [?m??.??]
    • Homophones: meddle, metal, mettle
  • (General Australian) IPA^(key): [?me?.??]
    • Homophones: meddle, metal, mettle
• Rhymes: -?d?l

Noun

medal (plural medals)

1. A stamped metal disc used as a personal ornament, a charm, or a religious object.
   • , II.i.3:

     Whether their images, shrines, relics, consecrated things, holy water, medals, benedictions, those divine amulets, holy exorcisms, and the sign of the cross, be available in this disease?

2. A stamped or cast metal object (usually a disc), particularly one awarded as a prize or reward.

Derived terms

Related terms

Descendants

• ? Japanese: ??? (medaru)
• ? Korean: ?? (medal)

Translations

Verb

medal (third-person singular simple present medals, present participle medaling or medalling, simple past and past participle medaled or medalled)

1. (intransitive, sports, colloquial) To win a medal.
2. (transitive) To award a medal to.

Anagrams

• Delma, damel, delam, lamed

Azerbaijani

Etymology

From French médaille, from Italian medaglia.

Noun

medal (definite accusative medal?, plural medallar)

1. medal

Declension

Derived terms

• medalç?

Further reading

• “medal” in Obastan.com.

Crimean Tatar

Noun

medal

1. medal.

Declension

References

• Mirjejev, V. A.; Usejinov, S. M. (2002) Ukrajins?ko-kryms?kotatars?kyj slovnyk [Ukrainian – Crimean Tatar Dictionary]?^[1], Simferopol: Dolya, ?ISBN

Estonian

Etymology

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

Noun

medal (genitive medali, partitive medalit)

1. medal

Declension

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• hõbemedal
• kuldmedal
• pronksmedal

Further reading

• medal in Eesti keele seletav sõnaraamat

Polish

Etymology

From French médaille, from Italian medaglia.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?m?.dal/

Noun

medal m inan (diminutive medalik)

1. medal (stamped metal disc)

Declension

Derived terms

• (nouns) medalista, medalistka, medalier
• (adjective) medalowy

Related terms

• (nouns) medalierstwo, medaliernia, medaliera
• (adjective) medalierski

Further reading

• medal in Wielki s?ownik j?zyka polskiego, Instytut J?zyka Polskiego PAN
• medal in Polish dictionaries at PWN

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???w??d/, /???w??d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???w??d/, /???w??d/, /?i?w??d/
• (obsolete) IPA^(key): /???w??(?)d/
• Rhymes: -??(?)d

Etymology 1

From Middle English reward, rewarde, from Old French reward (“reward”) (compare Old French regard, whence modern French regard, and also English regard through Middle French), from rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”) (compare Old French guarder); the Anglo-Norman forms are derived from Old Northern French variants of Old French, ultimately of Germanic (Frankish) origin. Compare regard, warden, guard. See more below.

Displaced native Middle English lean (“reward”), from Old English l?an (“reward”); Middle English schipe, schepe (“reward, wage”), from Old English scipe (“wages, payment, reward”). Partially displaced Middle English meed, mede (“reward, meed, recompense”), from Old English m?d (“reward, meed, recompense”).

Noun

reward (plural rewards)

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

   Synonyms: payment, recompense, tithing, meed

   Antonym: punishment

2. A prize promised for a certain deed or catch

   Synonym: bounty

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

   Synonym: consequence

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English rewarden, from Anglo-Norman rewarder (“to reward”) (compare Old French reguarder, whence modern French regarder, also English regard through Middle French), from re- + warder (“to guard, keep”), from Old Northern French [Term?], from Frankish *ward?n (“to guard, keep”), from Proto-Germanic *ward?n? (“to guard, defend”), from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to cover, shelter, defend, guard, shut”). Cognate with Old Saxon ward?n (“to guard, provide for, protect”), Old English weardian (“to watch, guard, keep”), Old High German wart?n (“to watch, keep, look after”). More at ward.

Verb

reward (third-person singular simple present rewards, present participle rewarding, simple past and past participle rewarded)

2. (transitive) To give a reward to or for.

3. (transitive) To recompense.
4. (obsolete, transitive) To give (something) as a reward.
   • Thou hast rewarded me good, whereas I have rewarded thee evil.

Derived terms

• rewardable
• rewarder
• rewarding
• unrewarded

Related terms

• award

Translations

Further reading

• reward in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• reward in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• Warder, drawer, redraw, warder, warred