Definition of endow
transitive verb
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
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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.
Recent Examples of endow from the Web
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Broadly speaking, AI comprises several technologies meant to endow software with human-like intelligence.
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Geophysicist; arguer for gun control; married to the former Susan Yassenoff, whose grandfather endowed the biggest Jewish community center in Columbus, Ohio, Klebold named one son for Lord Byron and the other after Dylan Thomas.
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The sun’s immense power over Earth and its creatures is scientific fact; to endow the moon with equal power is to embrace fairy tales and ghost stories.
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Jon Hamm, the world's most famous (and well-endowed) St. Louis Cardinals fan, was photographed coming out of a movie theater in New York City last week.
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Then Kanai’s team endowed these virtual agents with curiosity.
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The fire marked a fresh trauma in a city already roiled by terrorist attacks, an unhappy and divisive political campaign, and the lingering uncertainty over Brexit, all of which seemed to endow the tragedy with an extra measure of dismay.
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Wu has done deals with Blackstone Group LP, whose chairman and chief executive officer, Stephen Schwarzman, has helped endow a scholarship at Beijing’s Tsinghua University.
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Origin and Etymology of endow
Middle English, from Anglo-French endower, from en- + dower, douer to endow, from Latin dotare, from dot-, dos gift, dowry — more at date
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ENDOW Defined for English Language Learners
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: to give a large amount of money to a school, hospital, etc., in order to pay for the creation or continuing support of (something)
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: to freely or naturally provide (someone or something) with something
ENDOW Defined for Kids
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endowed
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1 : to provide with money for support The millionaire endowed a scholarship.
2 : to provide with something freely or naturally Humans are endowed with reason.
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endow
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: 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
Origin and Etymology of endow
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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