Definitions
Wiktionary
- v. Simple past tense and past participle of endow.
- adj. Pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature)
Examples
“We have a long list of heavily decorated people (men and women) who have gone on to obtain endowed professorships and chairmanships at top 10 institutions.”
“The name endowed to us, succinctly says all about us.”
“I once heard an Italian lady speak of a young friend whom she described as endowed with every virtue under heaven, “ma,” she exclaimed, “povero disgraziato, ha ammazzato suo zio.””
“And, I might add, when the need was felt to establish the Canada Council for the encouragement of arts and letters in our land, it was endowed from the estates of two outstanding Maritime-born captains of finance.”
“The right to use the physical strength and the brains with which the workman has been endowed is his by a far higher title than any right of property.”
“I once heard an Italian lady speak of a young friend whom she described as endowed with every virtue under heaven, "ma," she exclaimed, "povero disgraziato, ha ammazzato suo zio.”
“The three-year term endowed position recognizes a junior faculty member who shows promise and productivity in the field of equine research.”
“Schanzer's language bias is clearly demonstrated when he says that the "United Nations General Assembly partition plan ... endowed the Palestinian Arabs with a state that included an expanded Gaza strip, the West Bank, and much of the northern territory. [emphasis added]" How considerate for sure, to be "endowed" with only portions of your own homeland, while a minority of the population, immigrants at that, is given a majority of the land.”
“Almost all UC endowment funds are restricted for specific purposes, such as endowed chairs, student financial aid, research and academic support.”
“Eddie Jeffers, a young man all of 23-years old at his death, understood that but for the dedication of the valiant to safeguard the freedoms and liberties, "endowed" to us by the”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘endowed’.
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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spicolli's Words
terrapin, ravenous, fuck, sepulchral, garlic, suss, queer, curmudgeon, foodie, intricate, omphalos, subversion and 534 more...
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my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Words used in Bram Stoker's Dracula.
decadence, emancipation, nostalgia, abounded, modernity, revolution, famine, conservative, privy, vied, nascent, correspondence and 211 more...
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My Personnal Words List on WordNik
Eloquence, dismay, abolish, Procrastination, hallowed, Audacity, provision, flue gas, perceive, aprodith, cult, mischief and 136 more...
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Beowulf
kennings, prowess, danes, squadroned, mandate, heir, woe, endowed, warrior, nigh, liegemen, lauded and 16 more...
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increasingly innuendo-ous
Words that, strictly speaking, are not limited to sexual contexts but tend to be used that way.
titillate, ample, flaccid, turgid, engorged, erect, climax, endowed, shaft
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increasingly innuendo-ous (second tier)
Words that seem to have hint of sexual connotation but not to the same degree as the words in the first tier.
supple, steamy, moist, sultry, perky, girth, bountiful, stroke, shaft, endowed
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Kristianto2010 Fortunately for them however, Dragons seem to be endowed with good fortune, which saves them from making major mistakes and helps them to excel when they apply themselves correctly. Jan 3, 2011