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# guerdon

«guerdon» in Mova's school dictionary: **a reward or payment given for good work or service, in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (guerdon, guerdons) (old use)

### meaning for a pupil

A guerdon is a reward or payment given for good work or service, in old stories. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guerdon/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in fairy tales and old tales, the prize a hero or servant expects for a hard task

### examples

- The hero asked for no guerdon but a horse. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guerdon/#x1)
- The boyar gave the peasant a rich guerdon for his service. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guerdon/#x2)
- Augeas refused to pay the promised guerdon. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guerdon/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths; a guerdon is a reward, and the word itself changes no count

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «guerdon» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/G/guerdon/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.