Meaning

4 senses

  1. (transitive)To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.

    ausstatten

    обеспе́чиватьobespéčivatʹ

  2. (transitive)To enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.

    одариватьodarivatʹ

    наділя́тиnadiljáty, наділи́тиnadilýty, обдаро́вуватиobdaróvuvaty

    furnish with an endowment

  3. (transitive)To naturally furnish (with something).

    She was endowed with a beautiful voice.

    быть одарённымbytʹ odarjónnym

    наділя́тиnadiljáty, наділи́тиnadilýty

  4. (archaic, obsolete, transitive)To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).

Examples

35 sentences

  1. He is endowed with many talents.

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  2. She is endowed with a special talent.

    ruОна наделена особым талантом. — odexed

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  3. She is endowed with beauty.

    Вона обдарована вродою. — ChickenKiev

    ruОна наделена красотой. — odexed

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  4. He was endowed with great talents.

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  5. The pianist is endowed with extraordinary talent.

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Translations

7 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality:
Русский
By meaning 3
to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits:
to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality:
to naturally furnish:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits:

Origin

From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets,

From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin dōtāre (present active infinitive of dōtō (“to endow”)); modern French douer). Dōtō is derived from dōs (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh₃- (“to give”)) + -ō (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).

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Forms

endows, endowing, endowed, endowed
Base formendow · to endow
3rd person singularendows
Present participleendowing
Past simpleendowed
Past participleendowed

regular · Lesson

Present simpleLesson

I, you, we, theyendow
he, she, itendows

Past simpleLesson

all personsendowed

Present perfectLesson

I, you, we, theyhave endowed
he, she, ithas endowed

Future simple (will)Lesson

all personswill endow

Synonyms

9 synonyms
blessB1giftA1begiftendueclothe
Close in meaning

Word family

14 related words
RelateddowryB2dowagerdowerdoweressdowerlessendowment
Deriveddisendowendowableendowerendowment policymisendowreendowunendowedwell-endowed

Lessons for this word

3 lessons

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
endorseB2endorsementC1endoscopyendowmentenduranceB2endureB1enema

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