A wealthy manufacturer of New Brunswick had died and left part of his fortune to endow a large number of scholarships to be distributed among the various high schools and academies of the Maritime Provinces.
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Endow
//ɪnˈdaʊ//
Synonyms for "endow" (72 found)
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Related words (36)
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9 entriesderived from
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6 entriesTranslations
64 translations across 19 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- дарявам verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- надарявам verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
Catalan
1 entries- dotar verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
Chinese Mandarin
3 entries- 賦予 /赋予 verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- 賦予 /赋予 verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- 贈予 /赠予 verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
Czech
3 entries- obdařit verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- obdařit verb (to naturally furnish)
- propůjčit verb (to naturally furnish)
Dutch
4 entries- begiftigen verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- begiftigen verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- begiftigen verb (to naturally furnish)
- doteren verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
Finnish
4 entries- antaa verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- antaa verb (to naturally furnish)
- antaa perintö verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- lahjoittaa verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
French
3 entries- doter verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- doter verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- enrichir verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
German
1 entries- ausstatten verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
Indonesian
2 entries- dianugerahi verb (to naturally furnish)
- diberkati verb (to naturally furnish)
Irish
1 entries- maoinigh verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
Italian
4 entries- arricchire verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- dotare verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- dotare verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- dotare verb (to naturally furnish)
Macedonian
1 entries- обдарува verb (to naturally furnish)
Māori
2 entries- waiho iho verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- waiho iho verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
Portuguese
4 entries- custear verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- dotar verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- dotar verb (to naturally furnish)
- financiar verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
Romanian
2 entries- dota verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- înzestra verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
Russian
3 entries- быть одарённым verb (to naturally furnish)
- обеспе́чивать verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- одаривать verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
Spanish
4 entries- costear verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- dotar verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
- dotar verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- financiar verb (to give property to (someone) as a gift; to provide with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits)
Swedish
2 entries- begåvas verb (to naturally furnish)
- donera verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
Ukrainian
4 entries- наділи́ти verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- наділи́ти verb (to naturally furnish)
- наділя́ти verb (to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality)
- наділя́ти verb (to naturally furnish)
Sample sentences
31 total sentences available.
Throughout their career the Sixth Men had often been fascinated by the idea of flight. The bird was again and again their most sacred symbol. Their monotheism was apt to be worship not of a god-man, but of a godbird, conceived now as the divine sea-eagle, winged with power, now as the giant swift, winged with mercy, now as a disembodied spirit of air, and once as the bird-god that became man to endow the human race with flight, physical and spiritual.
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The lawmakers had put aside 40,000 acres of land the previous year, and planned to earn enough money from it to endow the university.
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His [John, King of England's] Acts and Orders for the VVeale-publike vvere beyond moſt: hee being either the firſt, or the chiefeſt, vvho appointed thoſe noble Formes of Ciuill gouernement in London, and moſt Cities, and Incorporate Tovvnes of England, endovving them alſo vvith their greateſt Franchiſes; […]
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