GUERDON

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does guerdon mean? 

• GUERDON (noun)
  The noun GUERDON has 1 sense:

1. a reward or payment

  Familiarity information: GUERDON used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GUERDON (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A reward or payment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting possession and transfer of possession

Hypernyms ("guerdon" is a kind of...):

reward (payment made in return for a service rendered)

 Context examples 

“A guerdon—a guerdon, my knight of the staring eyes!” cried one.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thanks to the school of scientific philosophers he favored, he knew the biological significance of love; but by a refined process of the same scientific reasoning he reached the conclusion that the human organism achieved its highest purpose in love, that love must not be questioned, but must be accepted as the highest guerdon of life.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

“Then dirt and weather-beat shall be your guerdon of honour,” I said, holding them in mine; and, spite of my resolutions, I would have kissed the two dear hands had she not swiftly withdrawn them.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

Be brave and pure, fearless to the strong and humble to the weak; and so, whether this love prosper or no, you will have fitted yourself to be honored by a maiden's love, which is, in sooth, the highest guerdon which a true knight can hope for.

(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)