HOW TO PRONOUNCE
endowment
/ɛnˈdaʊmənt/
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What does endowment mean?
noun
- Something with which a person or thing is endowed.
- Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
- Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
More meanings (1)
noun
- A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.
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I am going to manage pets for them somehow, if I have to spend our new endowment for a menagerie.
The incongruity between apperception of his own faults and his continued lying, considering his good mental endowment, seemed very strange.
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We are acquainted also with men of excellent native endowment who still have never risen above the ranks of mediocrity.
Gordon Wright was much interested in physical science, and had ideas of his own on what is called the endowment of research.
But we are here concerned with the specific endowment of childhood, and it is certainly an exaggeration to set this lower than that of maturity.