Home › Words › P › premiatepremiatepremiate means to give a prize to.EtymologyFrom premium or Latin praemium (“prize”).verbTo give a prize to.e.g.“Inevitably, a jury numbed by a succession of slides premiates some designs because they are "interesting" or "different."” — 1990, Landscape Architecture, volume 80, page 170:Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).