1. award - Noun
2. award - Verb
To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case; to adjudge; as, the arbitrators awarded damages to the complainant.
To determine; to make an award.
A judgment, sentence, or final decision. Specifically: The decision of arbitrators in a case submitted.
The paper containing the decision of arbitrators; that which is warded.
Source: Webster's dictionarySuch is the prestige of the Nobel award and of this place where I stand that I am impelled, not to squeak like a grateful and apologetic mouse, but to roar like a lion out of pride in my profession and in the great and good men who have practiced it through the ages. John Steinbeck
This award is meaningful because it comes from my fellow dealers in celluloid. Alfred Hitchcock
I don't concern myself with award. I'd been to the party enough times to know it really didn't matter. Denzel Washington
An award means a lot to me. It brings happiness along with a kind of fear. It brings fear because the award is the responsibility which audiences have put on us. So a singer winning an award should always try to give best of him to the audiences. Shreya Ghoshal
I received an award for 25 million in [album] sales the night before the bus accident [in 1990]. Gloria Estefan
The salary of the chief executive of a large corporation is not a market award for achievement. It is frequently in the nature of a warm personal gesture by the individual to himself. John Kenneth Galbraith