endowment

[ en-dou-muhnt ]

noun

1. the act of endowing.
2. the property, funds, etc., with which an institution or person is endowed.

   Synonyms: bequest, grant, gift

3. Usually endowments. an attribute of mind or body; a gift of nature.

   Synonyms: capability, ability, talent, capacity

endowment

/ ɪnˈdaʊmənt /

noun

1. 1. the source of income with which an institution, etc, is endowed
   2. the income itself
2. the act or process of endowing
3. usually plural natural talents or qualities

Other Words From

• nonen·dowment noun
• reen·dowment noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of endowment¹

First recorded in 1425–75; late Middle English, from Anglo-French endowement; equivalent to endow + -ment

Example Sentences

The campus this year also eliminated public fossil fuel investments from its endowment.

From Washington Post

“What was creative was figuring out a way to increase our giving while not diminishing the current value of our endowment,” Ford Foundation president Darren Walker tells Fortune.

From Fortune

Foundations, family offices, college endowments, pension funds, and insurance companies should all, they say, wield their power to change the face of corporate America and Silicon Valley.

From Fortune

All we can say is that the average genetic endowment of a group of dogs bred in exactly the same way as Dax will come out to be 56% husky and 44% Pomeranian.

From Quanta Magazine

The vote in Maryland came as both public and private HBCUs nationwide have been struggling with uncertain federal funding, sputtering enrollment, and relatively small endowments.

From TruthBeTold.news

The schools endowment grew from $114 million to $472 million.

From The Daily Beast

The National Endowment for the Arts reports that more than half of all Americans are still reading—and even talking about books.

From The Daily Beast

Brock-Broido has been honored with two National Endowment of the Arts fellowships and a Guggenheim fellowship.

From The Daily Beast

He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

From The Daily Beast

The fund would then disburse the money based on a formula, providing regular payments until the endowment is exhausted.

From The Daily Beast

But for the most part even industry and endowment were powerless against the inertia of custom and the dead-weight of environment.

From Project Gutenberg

She was a woman of great intellectual endowment, with highly cultivated literary tastes.

From Project Gutenberg

This endowment would give the schools consequence and character, and would correct and elevate the standard of education.

From Project Gutenberg

At its endowment Henry laid on the altar the famous "cornu eburneum," now lost.

From Project Gutenberg

That we have groped for the way of right conduct and agonized over the soul betokens our spiritual endowment.

From Project Gutenberg

Related Words

• bequest
• donation
• fund
• funding
• grant
• income
• inheritance
• largess
• nest egg
• pension
• revenue
• stipend
• subsidy
• trust