awarded

Meaning of awarded

verb, past tense
  1. give or order the giving of (something) as an official payment, compensation, or prize to (someone).
    he was awarded the Military Cross
    a 3.5 per cent pay rise was awarded to staff

late Middle English (in the sense ‘issue a judicial decision’, also denoting the decision itself): from Anglo-Norman French awarder, variant of Old French esguarder ‘consider, ordain’, from es- (from Latin ex ‘thoroughly’) + guarder ‘watch (over)’, based on a word of Germanic origin related to ward; compare with guard.

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Hyphenation of awarded

awarded

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 7 chars.
  • awarded is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

awarded synonyms

Meaning freely transfer the possession of (something) to (someone):

give

Meaning agree to give or allow (something requested) to:

grant

Meaning give or grant someone (power, status, or recognition):

accord

Meaning allocate (a job or duty):

assign

Meaning divide up and share out:

apportion

Meaning give or apportion (something) to someone:

allot

Meaning distribute (resources or duties) for a particular purpose:

allocate

Meaning let (someone) have or do something:

allow

Words that rhyme with awarded

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