corollary

Definition

A gift beyond what is actually due; an addition or superfluity.

Etymology

From Middle English, from Late Latin corōllārium (“money paid for a garland; gift, gratuity, corollary; consequence, deduction”), from corōlla (“small garland”), diminutive of corōna (“crown”).

Example Sentences

• "Finally getting that cracked window fixed was a nice corollary of redoing the whole storefront."
• "We have proven that this set is finite and well ordered; as a corollary, we now know that there is an order-preserving map from it to the natural numbers."