The meaning of ENDOW is to furnish with an income; especially : to make a grant of money providing for the continuing support or maintenance of. How to use endow in a sentence.

ENDOWING definition: 1. present participle of endow 2. to give a large amount of money to pay for creating a college…. Learn more.

Synonyms for ENDOWING: gifting, equipping, blessing, providing, favoring, investing, supplying, enduing; Antonyms of ENDOWING: stripping, divesting, draining, depleting, dispossessing, exhausting, stinting, skimping

To equip or supply with a talent or quality: Nature endowed you with a beautiful singing voice. b. To imagine as having a usually favorable trait or quality: endowed the family pet with human intelligence. 3. Obsolete To provide with a dower.

ENDOW meaning: 1. to give a large amount of money to pay for creating a college, hospital, etc. or to provide an…. Learn more.

You say that someone is endowed with a particular desirable ability, characteristic, or possession when they have it by chance or by birth. You are endowed with wealth, good health, and a lively intellect. 3 meanings: 1. to provide with or bequeath a source of permanent income 2. to provide (with qualities, characteristics, etc) 3.....

If you've been endowed with something, it means you've been given a gift — most likely a gift that can't be returned or exchanged, like a sense of humor or athletic ability or trust. We usually use endow to refer to an ability or a quality, but you can endow someone with money, too.

to endow a college. Nature has endowed her with great ability. Obsolete. to provide with a dower. (of a life-insurance policy) to become payable; yield its conditions. obsolete.