récompense

See also: recompense, récompensé, and recompensé

French

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ʁe.kɔ̃.pɑ̃s/
récompense (file)

Noun

récompense f (plural récompenses)

reward, recompense
- 1864, Phaedrus, translated by Levasseur and J. Chenu, Fables, sourced from :
  « Ingrate, lui dit-il, tu as retiré ta tête saine et sauve de mon gosier, et tu demandes une récompense ! »
  “You are an ungrateful one,” replied the Wolf, “to have taken your head in safety out of my mouth, and then to ask for a reward.”
prize, award

Descendants

→ Romanian: recompensă

Further reading

“récompense”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

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