accolade vs award

accolade

verb
  • To confer praise or awards on. 

  • To embrace or kiss in salutation. 

  • To confer a knighthood on. 

noun
  • An embrace of greeting or salutation. 

  • An expression of approval; praise. 

  • An ornament composed of two ogee curves meeting in the middle, each concave toward its outer extremity and convex toward the point at which it meets the other. 

  • Written Presidential certificate recognizing service by military personnel or civilians serving the US armed forces 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. 

  • Synonym of curly bracket 

  • 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. 

  • A brace used to join two or more staves. 

  • A special acknowledgment; an award. 

award

verb
  • To give (a person) an award. 

  • To determine; to make or grant an award. 

  • To give (an award). 

  • To give by sentence or judicial determination; to assign or apportion, after careful regard to the nature of the case. 

noun
  • A negotiated set of employment conditions and minimum wages for a particular trade or industry; an industrial 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. 

  • A trophy or medal; something that denotes an accomplishment, especially in a competition. A prize or honor based on merit. 

How often have the words accolade and award occurred in a corpus of books? (source: Google Ngram Viewer )