Endowment is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for ENDOWMENT in dictionary:

NOUN:
• the act of endowing; something that is settled on any person or institution
• the action of endowing something or someone
• an income or form of property given or bequeathed to someone
• a quality or ability possessed or inherited by someone
• a form of life insurance involving payment of a fixed sum to the insured person on a specified date, or to their estate should they die before this date
• money given to an institution, such as a hospital
• The act of bestowing a dower, fund, or permanent provision for support.
• That which is bestowed or settled on a person or an institution; property, fund, or revenue permanently appropriated to any object; as, the endowment of a church, a hospital, or a college.
• That which is given or bestowed upon the person or mind; gift of nature; accomplishment; natural capacity; talents; -- usually in the plural.
• natural abilities or qualities
• the capital that provides income for an institution
• the act of endowing with a permanent source of income
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• the act or process of endowing

Words related to ENDOWMENT

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Words that contain ENDOWMENT

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How to use ENDOWMENT in a sentence

• Faculty, gift, endowment, aptitude, attribute, talent, predilection, bent.
• With this wisdom of life is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
• I began to wonder what this man with such a lavish natural endowment would have done had he been trained.
• For his own part, were it not for the inadequate endowment of science in this country, he would never, if he could avoid it, work on anything smaller than a whale.
• The public Endowment of Motherhood as such may perhaps be the first broad suggestion of the quality of this new status.
• Being a philosopher and no fool, he would draw a very clear, hard distinction between the reckless endowment of the building trade and the dissemination of books.
• With this wisdom of life, is the equal endowment of imaginative and of lyric power.
• It is in the failure to see the relative importance of things, to keep the proportions, that human beings lose control of their endowment.
• He had very little will power to begin with and his mode of life had weakened his original endowment.
• It is in the blessed endowment of such gifts as these that the little child looks in the face of Christ, and is embraced in the arms of His love.
• As he already pointed out to the Secretary, when he was in Haifa, a National Endowment is at the present time to be considered more in the nature of a token endowment.
• The important point is that Canada should have its own National Endowment, as distinguished from the school property.
• The goals of the Ten Year Crusade include the purchase of an endowment for Germany.
• It was clearly the business of the government to supply purely local facilities for study and research, and the endowment of Smithson should not be used for such a purpose.
• There was no endowment, and only by the most strenuous efforts was the College saved on several occasions from being overwhelmed with debt.
• There was some hitch, at the last, about the endowment.
• Sterility not a special endowment, but incidental on other differences.
• The whole of the residue of his property, worth then about six millions of dollars, he devoted to the construction and endowment of a College for Orphans.
• Supposing that only one half of this revenue is appropriated to the College, it is still, we believe, the largest endowment in the country for an educational purpose.
• It resides, so to speak, at his centre of gravity, at the heart and magnetic focus of his complex endowment.
• I think more ought to go to the endowment and less for these luxuries.
• A trial of three years demonstrated that a college could not be sustained without an invested endowment.
• Varieties of endowment are only so many pitchers dipped in one stream.
• Accidental circumstances, natural and acquired endowment and ability, will vary their fortunes.

Similar words containing DOWM without suffix ent and without prefix en

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