endowed; endowing; endows
1
: to furnish with an income
especially
: to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of
endow a hospital
2
: to furnish with a dower
3
: to provide with something freely or naturally
endowed with a good sense of humor
Examples of endow in a Sentence
The wealthy couple endowed a new wing of the hospital.
She plans to endow a faculty position at the university.
The money will be used to endow the museum and research facility.
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Priya Oberoi, Forbes.com, 27 Mar. 2025
But are governments always endowed with such qualities?
—Nives Dolsak and Aseem Prakash, Forbes, 18 Mar. 2025
Two juries will deliberate over the winners of the Ibero-American and Spanish Malaga Festival Awards, each endowed with a €5,000 ($5,430) cash prize.
—Jamie Lang, Variety, 7 Mar. 2025
But every once in a while, a genetic loophole allows for the rise of something entirely new, endowed with the most useful traits of both of its parents.
—Ian Rose, JSTOR Daily, 26 Feb. 2025
See All Example Sentences for endow
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“Endow.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/endow. Accessed 15 Apr. 2025.
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endow
verb
en·dow
in-ˈdau̇ 
1
: to provide with money for support or maintenance
2
: to furnish with something freely or naturally
humans are endowed with reason
Legal Definition
endow
transitive verb
en·dow
in-ˈdau̇
: to furnish with income
especially
: to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of
a scholarship endowed by the testator
Etymology
Anglo-French endower, from Old French en-, prefix stressing completion + douer to endow, from Latin dotare, from dot-, dos gift, dowry
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