meaning of endow
1. To furnish with money or its equivalent, as a permanent fund for support; to make pecuniary provision for; to settle an income upon; especially, to furnish with dower; as, to endow a wife; to endow a public institution.
2. To enrich or furnish with anything of the nature of a gift (as a quality or faculty); -- followed by with, rarely by of; as, man is endowed by his Maker with reason; to endow with privileges or benefits.
3. furnish with an endowment; "When she got married, she got
">dowered"
Related Words
endow | endowed | endower | endowing | endowment | endowment fund | endowment insurance |
