Meaning

2 senses

  1. (colloquial, intransitive)To win a medal.

    He medalled twice at the Olympics.

  2. (transitive)To award a medal to.

Examples

134 sentences

  1. They won the silver medal.

    Вони виграли срібну медаль. — deniko

    ruОни выиграли серебряную медаль. — andy

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  2. Tom won a gold medal.

    Том завоював золоту медаль. — deniko

    ruТом выиграл золотую медаль. — sikmir

    deTom gewann eine Goldmedaille. — wolfgangth

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  3. I was given a medal.

    Мені вручили медаль. — deniko

    ruМне вручили медаль. — nina99nv

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  4. We congratulated him on winning a gold medal.

    Ми привітали його з завоюванням золотої медалі. — aandrusiak

    ruМы поздравили его с завоеванием золотой медали. — marafon

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  5. You deserve a medal.

    Ти заслуговуєш на медаль. — deniko

    ruТы заслуживаешь медали. — Balamax

    deDu verdienst eine Medaille. — mayabe

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Origin

From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (o

From Middle English [Term?], from Middle French medaille, medale, from Italian medaglia (originally "half a denarius"), from Early Medieval Latin medālia, feminine derived via dissimilation (/dj–lj/ > /d–lj/) from mediālia, neuter plural of Late Latin mediālis (“middle”, adjective), from Classical Latin medius.

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Forms

medals, medaling, medaled, medaled
Base formmedal · to medal
3rd person singularmedals
Present participlemedaling
Past simplemedaled / medalled
Past participlemedaled / medalled

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theymedal
he, she, itmedals

Past simpleLesson

all personsmedaled

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave medaled
he, she, ithas medaled

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill medal

Word family

2 related words
RelatedfinalA2podium

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
mechanicallymechanicsmechanismC1medmeddlemeddlesomemedevac

Dictionary text adapted from Wiktionary (Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet / Princeton WordNet (CC BY 4.0, WordNet License); shared under CC BY-SA 4.0. Example sentences and recordings are credited where they appear.

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