noun regard; respect; consideration.
2. reward ·noun hence, the fruit of one's labor or works.
3. reward ·noun compensation or remuneration for services; a sum of money paid or taken for doing, or forbearing to do, some act.
4. reward ·vt to give in return, whether good or evil;
commonly in a good sense; to requite; to recompense; to repay; to compensate.
5. reward ·noun that which is given in return for good or evil done or received; ·esp., that which is offered or given in return for some service or attainment, as for excellence in studies, for the return of something lost, ·etc.; recompense; requital.