Usually means: Reward or recompense for services.
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We found 23 dictionaries that define the word guerdon:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. guerdon: Merriam-Webster
  2. guerdon: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. guerdon: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. guerdon: Collins English Dictionary
  5. guerdon: Vocabulary.com
  6. Guerdon, guerdon: Wordnik
  7. guerdon: Wiktionary
  8. guerdon: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. guerdon: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Guerdon, guerdon: Dictionary.com
  11. guerdon: Online Etymology Dictionary
  12. Guerdon: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. guerdon: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. guerdon: Rhymezone
  15. Guerdon: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. guerdon: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  17. guerdon: FreeDictionary.org
  18. guerdon: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  19. guerdon: Mnemonic Dictionary
  20. guerdon: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. guerdon: Legal dictionary

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. guerdon: A Word A Day
  2. guerdon: Wordcraft Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (guerdon)

▸ noun:  (now literary) A reward, prize or recompense for a service; an accolade.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To give such a reward to.

Similar:
accolade, prize, gratification, meed, compensation, acknowledgment, reward, honor, recompence, consolation, more...

Opposite:
penalty, punishment, fine

Adjectives:
fair, such, promised, only, rich, good, high, due, golden, true, evil
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Similar:
accolade, prize, gratification, meed, compensation, acknowledgment, reward, honor, recompence, consolation, more...

Opposite:
penalty, punishment, fine

Adjectives:
fair, such, promised, only, rich, good, high, due, golden, true, evil



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