Accolade vs Merit - What's the difference?
accolade | merit |
An expression of approval; praise.
A special acknowledgment; an award.
An embrace of greeting or salutation.
(historical) A salutation marking the conferring of knighthood, consisting of an embrace or a kiss, and a slight blow on the shoulders with the flat of a sword.
(music) A brace used to join two or more staves.
(US, military) Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by personnel who died or were wounded in action between 1917 and 1918, or who died in service between 1941 and 1947, or died of wounds received in Korea between June 27, 1950 and July 27, 1954. Service of civilians who died overseas or as a result of injury or disease contracted while serving in a civilian capacity with the United States Armed Forces during the dates and/or in areas prescribed is in like manner recognized.
accolade
To embrace or kiss in salutation.
(historical) To confer a knighthood on.
To confer praise or awards on.
Something deserving positive recognition.
Something worthy of a high rating.
A claim to commendation or reward.
The quality of deserving reward.
* Shakespeare
* Alexander Pope
Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
* Prior
(obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
* Shakespeare
To earn or to deserve.
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To be worthy or deserving.
(obsolete, rare) To reward.
In transitive terms the difference between accolade and merit
is that accolade is to confer praise or awards on while merit is to earn or to deserve.accolade
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Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (expression of approval or praise) panegyricReferences
* (4) http://www.afms1.belvoir.army.mil/dictionary/a.htmVerb
(accolad)- an accoladed novel
merit
English
Noun
(en noun)- His reward for his merit was a check for $50.
- Reputation is oft got without merit , and lost without deserving.
- To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, / And every author's merit , but his own.
- His teacher gave him ten merits .
- those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth
- Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought / For things that others do; and when we fall, / We answer others' merits in our name.
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* (l) * (l)Antonyms
* (l)Verb
(en verb)- (Chapman)