Definition of endow in English:

endow

verb ɪnˈdaʊɛnˈdaʊ

[with object]

1Give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution)
he endowed the Church with lands
Example sentencesExamples
- Therefore, God endows each person with unique talents and attributes necessary for him to fulfill his task.
- A basic purpose of higher education is to endow students with the knowledge and capacity to exercise responsible and independent judgment.
- This God endowed him with these gifts since he passed the test, and showed love.
- For the parent keen to endow their child with an educational edge, shared reading is an obvious stepping stone.
- Iain is grateful to both parents for endowing him with an indomitable spirit and an iron will.
- ‘I endow ordinary people with love and sincerity,’ she said.
- The Mojave and Kiowa American Indian people believed dreams endowed supernatural abilities for fighting and hunting.
- When you consider how beautiful the car park is now, and the wonderful beach that nature has endowed us with, how can these people come along and spoil the area with their rubbish?
- The tensions within individuals and societies, within establishments and systems, endow writing with a sense of time, and in turn writing gives direction to the times.
- ‘It endows the people, not the president, with the right to decide on military action,’ she said.
- Democracy endows people with the right to decide their own future.
Synonyms
pass on, pass down
1. 1.1 Establish (a university post, annual prize, etc.) by donating the funds needed to maintain it.
  he endowed three chairs at Liverpool University
  Example sentencesExamples
  The landowner would have a very big say in who was appointed to the various livings and would frequently endow the churches and provide running expenses.
  He is a self-employed professor who endowed his own chair and granted himself tenure.
  Towards the end of the 17th century, land was bequeathed by a certain John Kershaw to endow a school in Waterfoot.
  Universities that were endowed by us have fallen so far behind that we cannot any longer recognise their degrees.
  Board members and others in the community are raising funds to endow the center in his honor.
  Lord Nuffield endowed educational and medical activities through the British United Provident Association, the Nuffield Foundation, and Nuffield College of Oxford University.
  Further, had he won, he intended to use the 200 000 leva prize money to endow a church and scholarships for gifted children.
  The Pake Prize was endowed in 1983 in recognition of the achievements of George Pake, a research physicist and director of industrial research.
  A donation of more than a half million dollars in 1976 endowed a Chair in the American Catholic Church History at the University.
  Eleven schools have awards endowed and several more indicated plans to seek endowments.
  He was instrumental in attracting funds to endow a visiting lectureship series and three professorships, the first such endowments in the College of Agriculture.
  The Merck Endowment Fund is a permanently restricted net asset to endow the Rufus A. Lyman Award.
  Later he would endow this chair with his own money.
  At Adelaide, Henderson taught imperial and colonial history, and arranged for a local benefactor to endow a prize for work on South Australian history written from the original records.
  They've had a chair endowed from outside funds.
  He founded and endowed the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh.
  He has given $50,000 in personal funds to endow two scholarships for students of disadvantaged backgrounds.
  Yale created its first endowed Chair to recognize the achievements of an African American in your honor.
  All of the speakers were careful to point out that Rhodes was a very bad man who happened to do some very good things, such as endowing the Scholarship Fund.
  Over the years the Hollywood director has made financial contributions to scouting facilities and endowed a cinematography award for aspiring scout film-makers.
  Synonyms
  finance, fund, pay for, donate money for, give money towards, provide capital for, subsidize, support financially
  bequeath money for, leave money for, settle money on
  establish, set up, institute, put in place, initiate, start, create, bring into being
  informal fork out for, shell out for, cough up for, chip in for, pitch in for
  British informal stump up for
  North American informal ante up for, kick in for, pony up for
2Provide with a quality, ability, or asset.
he was endowed with tremendous physical strength
Example sentencesExamples
- Everybody is endowed with the ability to make ethical judgments.
- Such a demand has been answered by computer manufacturers who are competing to produce laptops of smaller size and lighter weight endowed with wireless capabilities.
- A Chinese woman who claims she is endowed with a special gift that allows her to heal others was deported from Taiwan yesterday.
- You are aware, of course, that she is insane, but she is also endowed with formidable psychic gifts.
- You have also been endowed with the ability to command and control.
- Recent evidence indicates that some birds are also capable of UV vision and that insects and fish are endowed with the ability to perceive UV polarized light.
- Love is part of the nature of God, and humans were endowed with the ability to love as part of being ‘created in His image’.
- Geographically, this region is endowed with tremendous diversity of hills, valleys, forests, grazing lands, streams, and canals.
- In addition he was endowed by a dynamic personality, buoyant spirit, and had immense personal magnetism, saintly kindliness and charity, displaying neither envy nor malice.
- Actually, the larvae of most coral reef fishes are endowed with good swimming abilities, good sensory systems, and sophisticated behavior that is quite flexible.
- It has been endowed with a mystic quality.
- Maria, Blanca, and Lucy are not in any way superhuman, nor are they endowed with amazing abilities.
Synonyms
provide, supply, furnish, equip, invest, give, present, favour, bless, grace, award, gift, confer, bestow, enrich, arm
literary endue
1. 2.1be endowedinformal Have breasts or a penis of specified size.
  the girl on page three is well endowed
  Example sentencesExamples
  Usually to be endowed with large breasts is seen as a benefit in more ways than one.
  Even perfectly endowed Indian women would feel uncomfortable wearing a bikini in public.
  If women hear a guy is well endowed all of a sudden they are really curious.
  More to the point, I'm wondering if you've ever been with a guy who was well endowed?

Derivatives

endower

noun

He had been an ardent supporter and endower of the Abbey and is fitting that he should be buried here.
Example sentencesExamples
- Athelstan who had been a great endower of Malmesbury Abbey was buried there following his death in 940.
- It falls in the category of an ongoing charity from which an endower continues to derive benefits forever.

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense 'provide a dower or dowry'; formerly also as indow): from legal Anglo-Norman French endouer, from en- 'in, towards' + Old French douer 'give as a gift' (from Latin dotare: see dower).

Rhymes

allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao

Definition of endow in US English:

endow

verb

[with object]

1Give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution)
he endowed the church with lands
Example sentencesExamples
- Iain is grateful to both parents for endowing him with an indomitable spirit and an iron will.
- ‘I endow ordinary people with love and sincerity,’ she said.
- A basic purpose of higher education is to endow students with the knowledge and capacity to exercise responsible and independent judgment.
- Democracy endows people with the right to decide their own future.
- For the parent keen to endow their child with an educational edge, shared reading is an obvious stepping stone.
- The tensions within individuals and societies, within establishments and systems, endow writing with a sense of time, and in turn writing gives direction to the times.
- ‘It endows the people, not the president, with the right to decide on military action,’ she said.
- The Mojave and Kiowa American Indian people believed dreams endowed supernatural abilities for fighting and hunting.
- This God endowed him with these gifts since he passed the test, and showed love.
- When you consider how beautiful the car park is now, and the wonderful beach that nature has endowed us with, how can these people come along and spoil the area with their rubbish?
- Therefore, God endows each person with unique talents and attributes necessary for him to fulfill his task.
Synonyms
pass on, pass down
1. 1.1 Establish (a college post, annual prize, or project) by donating the funds needed to maintain it.
  Example sentencesExamples
  Board members and others in the community are raising funds to endow the center in his honor.
  Lord Nuffield endowed educational and medical activities through the British United Provident Association, the Nuffield Foundation, and Nuffield College of Oxford University.
  All of the speakers were careful to point out that Rhodes was a very bad man who happened to do some very good things, such as endowing the Scholarship Fund.
  Over the years the Hollywood director has made financial contributions to scouting facilities and endowed a cinematography award for aspiring scout film-makers.
  He is a self-employed professor who endowed his own chair and granted himself tenure.
  He founded and endowed the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh.
  Universities that were endowed by us have fallen so far behind that we cannot any longer recognise their degrees.
  A donation of more than a half million dollars in 1976 endowed a Chair in the American Catholic Church History at the University.
  The Merck Endowment Fund is a permanently restricted net asset to endow the Rufus A. Lyman Award.
  He was instrumental in attracting funds to endow a visiting lectureship series and three professorships, the first such endowments in the College of Agriculture.
  Later he would endow this chair with his own money.
  The landowner would have a very big say in who was appointed to the various livings and would frequently endow the churches and provide running expenses.
  They've had a chair endowed from outside funds.
  The Pake Prize was endowed in 1983 in recognition of the achievements of George Pake, a research physicist and director of industrial research.
  Yale created its first endowed Chair to recognize the achievements of an African American in your honor.
  Eleven schools have awards endowed and several more indicated plans to seek endowments.
  At Adelaide, Henderson taught imperial and colonial history, and arranged for a local benefactor to endow a prize for work on South Australian history written from the original records.
  Further, had he won, he intended to use the 200 000 leva prize money to endow a church and scholarships for gifted children.
  He has given $50,000 in personal funds to endow two scholarships for students of disadvantaged backgrounds.
  Towards the end of the 17th century, land was bequeathed by a certain John Kershaw to endow a school in Waterfoot.
  Synonyms
  finance, fund, pay for, donate money for, give money towards, provide capital for, subsidize, support financially
2. 1.2usually be endowed with Provide with a quality, ability, or asset.
  he was endowed with tremendous physical strength
  Example sentencesExamples
  You have also been endowed with the ability to command and control.
  Actually, the larvae of most coral reef fishes are endowed with good swimming abilities, good sensory systems, and sophisticated behavior that is quite flexible.
  Love is part of the nature of God, and humans were endowed with the ability to love as part of being ‘created in His image’.
  In addition he was endowed by a dynamic personality, buoyant spirit, and had immense personal magnetism, saintly kindliness and charity, displaying neither envy nor malice.
  A Chinese woman who claims she is endowed with a special gift that allows her to heal others was deported from Taiwan yesterday.
  Maria, Blanca, and Lucy are not in any way superhuman, nor are they endowed with amazing abilities.
  Recent evidence indicates that some birds are also capable of UV vision and that insects and fish are endowed with the ability to perceive UV polarized light.
  It has been endowed with a mystic quality.
  Such a demand has been answered by computer manufacturers who are competing to produce laptops of smaller size and lighter weight endowed with wireless capabilities.
  Geographically, this region is endowed with tremendous diversity of hills, valleys, forests, grazing lands, streams, and canals.
  Everybody is endowed with the ability to make ethical judgments.
  You are aware, of course, that she is insane, but she is also endowed with formidable psychic gifts.
  Synonyms
  provide, supply, furnish, equip, invest, give, present, favour, bless, grace, award, gift, confer, bestow, enrich, arm

Origin

Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘provide a dower or dowry’; formerly also as indow): from legal Anglo-Norman French endouer, from en- ‘in, towards’ + Old French douer ‘give as a gift’ (from Latin dotare: see dower).

单词	endow
释义	Definition of endow in English: endow verb ɪnˈdaʊɛnˈdaʊ [with object] 1Give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution) he endowed the Church with lands Example sentencesExamples Therefore, God endows each person with unique talents and attributes necessary for him to fulfill his task. A basic purpose of higher education is to endow students with the knowledge and capacity to exercise responsible and independent judgment. This God endowed him with these gifts since he passed the test, and showed love. For the parent keen to endow their child with an educational edge, shared reading is an obvious stepping stone. Iain is grateful to both parents for endowing him with an indomitable spirit and an iron will. ‘I endow ordinary people with love and sincerity,’ she said. The Mojave and Kiowa American Indian people believed dreams endowed supernatural abilities for fighting and hunting. When you consider how beautiful the car park is now, and the wonderful beach that nature has endowed us with, how can these people come along and spoil the area with their rubbish? The tensions within individuals and societies, within establishments and systems, endow writing with a sense of time, and in turn writing gives direction to the times. ‘It endows the people, not the president, with the right to decide on military action,’ she said. Democracy endows people with the right to decide their own future. Synonyms pass on, pass down 1.1 Establish (a university post, annual prize, etc.) by donating the funds needed to maintain it. he endowed three chairs at Liverpool University Example sentencesExamples The landowner would have a very big say in who was appointed to the various livings and would frequently endow the churches and provide running expenses. He is a self-employed professor who endowed his own chair and granted himself tenure. Towards the end of the 17th century, land was bequeathed by a certain John Kershaw to endow a school in Waterfoot. Universities that were endowed by us have fallen so far behind that we cannot any longer recognise their degrees. Board members and others in the community are raising funds to endow the center in his honor. Lord Nuffield endowed educational and medical activities through the British United Provident Association, the Nuffield Foundation, and Nuffield College of Oxford University. Further, had he won, he intended to use the 200 000 leva prize money to endow a church and scholarships for gifted children. The Pake Prize was endowed in 1983 in recognition of the achievements of George Pake, a research physicist and director of industrial research. A donation of more than a half million dollars in 1976 endowed a Chair in the American Catholic Church History at the University. Eleven schools have awards endowed and several more indicated plans to seek endowments. He was instrumental in attracting funds to endow a visiting lectureship series and three professorships, the first such endowments in the College of Agriculture. The Merck Endowment Fund is a permanently restricted net asset to endow the Rufus A. Lyman Award. Later he would endow this chair with his own money. At Adelaide, Henderson taught imperial and colonial history, and arranged for a local benefactor to endow a prize for work on South Australian history written from the original records. They've had a chair endowed from outside funds. He founded and endowed the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh. He has given $50,000 in personal funds to endow two scholarships for students of disadvantaged backgrounds. Yale created its first endowed Chair to recognize the achievements of an African American in your honor. All of the speakers were careful to point out that Rhodes was a very bad man who happened to do some very good things, such as endowing the Scholarship Fund. Over the years the Hollywood director has made financial contributions to scouting facilities and endowed a cinematography award for aspiring scout film-makers. Synonyms finance, fund, pay for, donate money for, give money towards, provide capital for, subsidize, support financially bequeath money for, leave money for, settle money on establish, set up, institute, put in place, initiate, start, create, bring into being informal fork out for, shell out for, cough up for, chip in for, pitch in for British informal stump up for North American informal ante up for, kick in for, pony up for 2Provide with a quality, ability, or asset. he was endowed with tremendous physical strength Example sentencesExamples Everybody is endowed with the ability to make ethical judgments. Such a demand has been answered by computer manufacturers who are competing to produce laptops of smaller size and lighter weight endowed with wireless capabilities. A Chinese woman who claims she is endowed with a special gift that allows her to heal others was deported from Taiwan yesterday. You are aware, of course, that she is insane, but she is also endowed with formidable psychic gifts. You have also been endowed with the ability to command and control. Recent evidence indicates that some birds are also capable of UV vision and that insects and fish are endowed with the ability to perceive UV polarized light. Love is part of the nature of God, and humans were endowed with the ability to love as part of being ‘created in His image’. Geographically, this region is endowed with tremendous diversity of hills, valleys, forests, grazing lands, streams, and canals. In addition he was endowed by a dynamic personality, buoyant spirit, and had immense personal magnetism, saintly kindliness and charity, displaying neither envy nor malice. Actually, the larvae of most coral reef fishes are endowed with good swimming abilities, good sensory systems, and sophisticated behavior that is quite flexible. It has been endowed with a mystic quality. Maria, Blanca, and Lucy are not in any way superhuman, nor are they endowed with amazing abilities. Synonyms provide, supply, furnish, equip, invest, give, present, favour, bless, grace, award, gift, confer, bestow, enrich, arm literary endue 2.1be endowedinformal Have breasts or a penis of specified size. the girl on page three is well endowed Example sentencesExamples Usually to be endowed with large breasts is seen as a benefit in more ways than one. Even perfectly endowed Indian women would feel uncomfortable wearing a bikini in public. If women hear a guy is well endowed all of a sudden they are really curious. More to the point, I'm wondering if you've ever been with a guy who was well endowed? Derivatives endower noun He had been an ardent supporter and endower of the Abbey and is fitting that he should be buried here. Example sentencesExamples Athelstan who had been a great endower of Malmesbury Abbey was buried there following his death in 940. It falls in the category of an ongoing charity from which an endower continues to derive benefits forever. Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense 'provide a dower or dowry'; formerly also as indow): from legal Anglo-Norman French endouer, from en- 'in, towards' + Old French douer 'give as a gift' (from Latin dotare: see dower). Rhymes allow, avow, Bilbao, Bissau, bough, bow, bow-wow, brow, cacao, chow, ciao, cow, dhow, Dow, Foochow, Frau, Hangzhou, Hough, how, Howe, kowtow, Lao, Liao, Macao, Macau, miaow, Mindanao, mow, now, ow, Palau, plough (US plow), pow, prow, row, scow, Slough, sough, sow, Tao, thou, vow, wow, Yangshao Definition of endow in US English: endow verb [with object] 1Give or bequeath an income or property to (a person or institution) he endowed the church with lands Example sentencesExamples Iain is grateful to both parents for endowing him with an indomitable spirit and an iron will. ‘I endow ordinary people with love and sincerity,’ she said. A basic purpose of higher education is to endow students with the knowledge and capacity to exercise responsible and independent judgment. Democracy endows people with the right to decide their own future. For the parent keen to endow their child with an educational edge, shared reading is an obvious stepping stone. The tensions within individuals and societies, within establishments and systems, endow writing with a sense of time, and in turn writing gives direction to the times. ‘It endows the people, not the president, with the right to decide on military action,’ she said. The Mojave and Kiowa American Indian people believed dreams endowed supernatural abilities for fighting and hunting. This God endowed him with these gifts since he passed the test, and showed love. When you consider how beautiful the car park is now, and the wonderful beach that nature has endowed us with, how can these people come along and spoil the area with their rubbish? Therefore, God endows each person with unique talents and attributes necessary for him to fulfill his task. Synonyms pass on, pass down 1.1 Establish (a college post, annual prize, or project) by donating the funds needed to maintain it. Example sentencesExamples Board members and others in the community are raising funds to endow the center in his honor. Lord Nuffield endowed educational and medical activities through the British United Provident Association, the Nuffield Foundation, and Nuffield College of Oxford University. All of the speakers were careful to point out that Rhodes was a very bad man who happened to do some very good things, such as endowing the Scholarship Fund. Over the years the Hollywood director has made financial contributions to scouting facilities and endowed a cinematography award for aspiring scout film-makers. He is a self-employed professor who endowed his own chair and granted himself tenure. He founded and endowed the Abercromby Chair of Archaeology in the University of Edinburgh. Universities that were endowed by us have fallen so far behind that we cannot any longer recognise their degrees. A donation of more than a half million dollars in 1976 endowed a Chair in the American Catholic Church History at the University. The Merck Endowment Fund is a permanently restricted net asset to endow the Rufus A. Lyman Award. He was instrumental in attracting funds to endow a visiting lectureship series and three professorships, the first such endowments in the College of Agriculture. Later he would endow this chair with his own money. The landowner would have a very big say in who was appointed to the various livings and would frequently endow the churches and provide running expenses. They've had a chair endowed from outside funds. The Pake Prize was endowed in 1983 in recognition of the achievements of George Pake, a research physicist and director of industrial research. Yale created its first endowed Chair to recognize the achievements of an African American in your honor. Eleven schools have awards endowed and several more indicated plans to seek endowments. At Adelaide, Henderson taught imperial and colonial history, and arranged for a local benefactor to endow a prize for work on South Australian history written from the original records. Further, had he won, he intended to use the 200 000 leva prize money to endow a church and scholarships for gifted children. He has given $50,000 in personal funds to endow two scholarships for students of disadvantaged backgrounds. Towards the end of the 17th century, land was bequeathed by a certain John Kershaw to endow a school in Waterfoot. Synonyms finance, fund, pay for, donate money for, give money towards, provide capital for, subsidize, support financially 1.2usually be endowed with Provide with a quality, ability, or asset. he was endowed with tremendous physical strength Example sentencesExamples You have also been endowed with the ability to command and control. Actually, the larvae of most coral reef fishes are endowed with good swimming abilities, good sensory systems, and sophisticated behavior that is quite flexible. Love is part of the nature of God, and humans were endowed with the ability to love as part of being ‘created in His image’. In addition he was endowed by a dynamic personality, buoyant spirit, and had immense personal magnetism, saintly kindliness and charity, displaying neither envy nor malice. A Chinese woman who claims she is endowed with a special gift that allows her to heal others was deported from Taiwan yesterday. Maria, Blanca, and Lucy are not in any way superhuman, nor are they endowed with amazing abilities. Recent evidence indicates that some birds are also capable of UV vision and that insects and fish are endowed with the ability to perceive UV polarized light. It has been endowed with a mystic quality. Such a demand has been answered by computer manufacturers who are competing to produce laptops of smaller size and lighter weight endowed with wireless capabilities. Geographically, this region is endowed with tremendous diversity of hills, valleys, forests, grazing lands, streams, and canals. Everybody is endowed with the ability to make ethical judgments. You are aware, of course, that she is insane, but she is also endowed with formidable psychic gifts. Synonyms provide, supply, furnish, equip, invest, give, present, favour, bless, grace, award, gift, confer, bestow, enrich, arm Origin Late Middle English (also in the sense ‘provide a dower or dowry’; formerly also as indow): from legal Anglo-Norman French endouer, from en- ‘in, towards’ + Old French douer ‘give as a gift’ (from Latin dotare: see dower).
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