Endowment

Quick meaning: Endowment is a noun meaning Something with which a person or thing is endowed.

Meaning

Something with which a person or thing is endowed.

More Meanings

1. Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution.
2. (insurance) Endowment assurance or pure endowment.
3. (Mormonism) A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife.

Example Sentences

[…] the woman with larger-than-usual breasts will be initially perceived only as a sex object if she doesn't take steps to disguise her endowment.

We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Tami also had huge breasts, and every teenage boy wanted to touch them. […] Tami, knowing she was not beautiful, used her endowment to great advantage.

What is … important is that we — number one: Learn to live with each other. Number two: try to bring out the best in each other. The best from the best, and the best from those who, perhaps, might not have the same endowment.

Word Forms

• endowments

Synonyms for endowment

Depending on context, synonyms include gift, talent.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include gift, talent, donation, donor, donate, appointment.

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