"endowment" meaning in All languages combined

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Noun [English]

IPA: /ɪnˈdaʊmənt/ [UK], /ɛnˈdaʊmənt/ [UK], /ɛnˈdaʊmənt/ [US], /ɪnˈdaʊmənt/ [US] Audio: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-endowment.wav [Southern-England], LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-endowment2.wav [Southern-England] Forms: endowments [plural]
enPR: ĭn-douʹmənt [US], ĕn-douʹmənt [US] Etymology: From Middle English endowement; equivalent to endow + -ment. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|endowement}} Middle English endowement, {{suffix|en|endow|ment}} endow + -ment Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} endowment (countable and uncountable, plural endowments)
  1. Something with which a person or thing is endowed. Tags: countable, uncountable Synonyms (something with which a person or thing is endowed): gift Translations (something with which a person or thing is endowed): дар (dar) [masculine] (Bulgarian), dar [masculine] (Czech), dárek [masculine] (Czech), gift [masculine] (Dutch), lahja (Finnish), lahjat [plural] (Finnish), dotation [feminine] (French), χάρισμα (chárisma) [neuter] (Greek), dotazione (Italian), dotação [feminine] (Portuguese), дар (dar) [masculine] (Russian), donacija [feminine] (Slovene), dote [feminine] (Spanish), dotación [feminine] (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-endowment-en-noun-L2rb6xcW Disambiguation of 'something with which a person or thing is endowed': 71 15 5 1 8 Disambiguation of 'something with which a person or thing is endowed': 71 15 5 1 8
  2. Property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution. Tags: countable, uncountable Translations (property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution): дарение (darenie) (Bulgarian), dotace [feminine] (Czech), dar (Czech), dotatie [feminine] (Dutch), lahjoituspääoma (Finnish), säätiöpääoma (Finnish), kantarahasto (Finnish), säätiö (Finnish), lahjoitus (Finnish), δωρεά (doreá) [feminine] (Greek), sokongan (Indonesian), dukungan (Indonesian), maoineas [masculine] (Irish), maoininú [masculine] (Irish), stanziamento (Italian), zaklada [feminine] (Serbo-Croatian)
    Sense id: en-endowment-en-noun-0-xP-tEh Disambiguation of 'property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution': 14 76 3 1 6
  3. (insurance) Endowment assurance or pure endowment. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Insurance Translations (form of life insurance): säästöhenkivakuutus (Finnish), dwiguna (Indonesian), manfaat ganda (Indonesian), endowmen (Malay)
    Sense id: en-endowment-en-noun-pB1MmCI1 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ment Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 23 12 45 10 10 Disambiguation of English terms suffixed with -ment: 23 15 39 13 11 Topics: business, insurance Disambiguation of 'form of life insurance': 19 10 53 9 9
  4. (Mormonism) A ceremony designed to prepare participants for their role in the afterlife. Tags: Mormonism, countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Mormonism Translations (Mormonism: ceremony): endaumentti (Finnish)
    Sense id: en-endowment-en-noun-YZlqAKwT Disambiguation of 'Mormonism: ceremony': 0 5 10 84 1
  5. The size of a person's penis or breasts; how well-endowed one is. Tags: countable, uncountable
    Sense id: en-endowment-en-noun-na9HEpgB
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Synonyms: indowment [archaic] Derived forms: disendowment, endowment-linked mortgage, endowment mortgage, endowment policy Related terms: endow

Noun [Middle English]

Head templates: {{head|enm|noun}} endowment
  1. Alternative form of endowement Tags: alt-of, alternative Alternative form of: endowement
    Sense id: en-endowment-enm-noun-v2OvgkiG Categories (other): Middle English entries with incorrect language header

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          "ref": "1980, Ray Broadus Browne, Rituals and ceremonies in popular culture, page 230",
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          "ref": "2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68",
          "text": "Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.",
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        "Alternative form of endowement"
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        [
          "endowement",
          "endowement#Middle English"
        ]
      ],
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        "alt-of",
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}
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    "English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "English terms with audio links",
    "English uncountable nouns"
  ],
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    },
    {
      "word": "endowment-linked mortgage"
    },
    {
      "word": "endowment mortgage"
    },
    {
      "word": "endowment policy"
    }
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        "Quotation templates to be cleaned"
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          "ref": "1791, Benjamin Banneker, Letter to Thomas Jefferson on racism and slavery (19 August 1791)",
          "text": "I suppose it is a truth too well attested to you, to need a proof here, that we are a race of beings, who have long labored under the abuse and censure of the world; that we have long been looked upon with an eye of contempt; and that we have long been considered rather as brutish than human, and scarcely capable of mental endowments."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1958, Adlai Stevenson, Speech to the United Parents Association",
          "text": "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."
        },
        {
          "ref": "1980, Ray Broadus Browne, Rituals and ceremonies in popular culture, page 230",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "1985 May 11, Jonas Salk, Interview on, The Open Mind",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
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          "ref": "2006, Natalie R. Collins, Wives and Sisters, page 54",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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          "endow"
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      ],
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        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        "English terms with quotations"
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott, in chapter 8 of his novella Flatland",
          "text": "Not content with the natural neglect into which Sight Recognition was falling, they began boldly to demand the legal prohibition of all \"monopolizing and aristocratic Arts\" and the consequent abolition of all endowments for the studies of Sight Recognition, Mathematics, and Feeling."
        },
        {
          "text": "1932, Robert Clarkson Clothier, after assuming the presidency of Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey\nI seem to see a great university, great in endowment, in land, in buildings, in equipment, but greater still, second to none, in its practical idealism, and its social usefulness."
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013 July 6, “The rise of smart beta”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8843, page 68",
          "text": "Investors face a quandary. Cash offers a return of virtually zero in many developed countries; government-bond yields may have risen in recent weeks but they are still unattractive. Equities have suffered two big bear markets since 2000 and are wobbling again. It is hardly surprising that pension funds, insurers and endowments are searching for new sources of return.",
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        }
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    },
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          "endowment assurance"
        ],
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          "pure endowment",
          "pure endowment"
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        "(insurance) Endowment assurance or pure endowment."
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        "uncountable"
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        "business",
        "insurance"
      ]
    },
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      "categories": [
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      ],
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          "Mormonism"
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          "ceremony"
        ],
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          "afterlife"
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        "uncountable"
      ]
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    {
      "categories": [
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        {
          "ref": "1985 April 20, “Personal advertisement”, in Gay Community News, page 13",
          "text": "me: 5'8\" 135 lbs. gdlk coll. ed, indep but shy at bars, n2 music/audio, quiet nights, j/o ect. You: str act av-gd lks 25-30 endwmnt unimp. but str act a must.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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          "penis",
          "penis"
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          "breast",
          "breast"
        ],
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          "well-endowed",
          "well-endowed"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "countable",
        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈdaʊmənt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈdaʊmənt/",
      "tags": [
        "UK"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɛnˈdaʊmənt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
    {
      "ipa": "/ɪnˈdaʊmənt/",
      "tags": [
        "US"
      ]
    },
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      "tags": [
        "Southern-England"
      ],
      "text": "Audio (Southern England)"
    },
    {
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      "tags": [
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    {
      "enpr": "ĭn-douʹmənt",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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    },
    {
      "enpr": "ĕn-douʹmənt",
      "tags": [
        "US"
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      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "word": "gift"
    },
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      "tags": [
        "archaic"
      ],
      "word": "indowment"
    }
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    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "dar",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дар"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dar"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "dárek"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "gift"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "word": "lahja"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ],
      "word": "lahjat"
    },
    {
      "code": "fr",
      "lang": "French",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dotation"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "chárisma",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "neuter"
      ],
      "word": "χάρισμα"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "word": "dotazione"
    },
    {
      "code": "pt",
      "lang": "Portuguese",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dotação"
    },
    {
      "code": "ru",
      "lang": "Russian",
      "roman": "dar",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "дар"
    },
    {
      "code": "sl",
      "lang": "Slovene",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "donacija"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dote"
    },
    {
      "code": "es",
      "lang": "Spanish",
      "sense": "something with which a person or thing is endowed",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dotación"
    },
    {
      "code": "bg",
      "lang": "Bulgarian",
      "roman": "darenie",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "дарение"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dotace"
    },
    {
      "code": "cs",
      "lang": "Czech",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "dar"
    },
    {
      "code": "nl",
      "lang": "Dutch",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "dotatie"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "lahjoituspääoma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "säätiöpääoma"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "kantarahasto"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "säätiö"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "lahjoitus"
    },
    {
      "code": "el",
      "lang": "Greek",
      "roman": "doreá",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "δωρεά"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "sokongan"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "dukungan"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maoineas"
    },
    {
      "code": "ga",
      "lang": "Irish",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "tags": [
        "masculine"
      ],
      "word": "maoininú"
    },
    {
      "code": "it",
      "lang": "Italian",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "word": "stanziamento"
    },
    {
      "code": "sh",
      "lang": "Serbo-Croatian",
      "sense": "property or funds invested for the support and benefit of a person or not-for-profit institution",
      "tags": [
        "feminine"
      ],
      "word": "zaklada"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "form of life insurance",
      "word": "säästöhenkivakuutus"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "form of life insurance",
      "word": "dwiguna"
    },
    {
      "code": "id",
      "lang": "Indonesian",
      "sense": "form of life insurance",
      "word": "manfaat ganda"
    },
    {
      "code": "ms",
      "lang": "Malay",
      "sense": "form of life insurance",
      "word": "endowmen"
    },
    {
      "code": "fi",
      "lang": "Finnish",
      "sense": "Mormonism: ceremony",
      "word": "endaumentti"
    }
  ],
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}

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  "lang_code": "enm",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "alt_of": [
        {
          "word": "endowement"
        }
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        "Middle English entries with incorrect language header",
        "Middle English lemmas",
        "Middle English nouns"
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}

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