Noun: merit (plural merits)
- Something deserving positive recognition.
- Something worthy of a high rating.
- Alexander Pope
- Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation.
- (obsolete) The quality or state of deserving either good or bad; desert.
- merit m (plural meric)
Verb: merit (third-person singular simple present merits, present participle meriting, simple past and past participle merited)
- (transitive) To earn or to deserve.
- (intransitive) To be worthy or deserving.