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# endowment

«endowment» in Mova's school dictionary: **a gift of money or property given to a school or charity…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (endowment, endowments)

### meaning for a pupil

1) An endowment is a gift of money or property given to a school or charity to keep going. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endowment/#m1)

2) An endowment is a natural gift or talent that someone is born with. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endowment/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

a gift or talent given to someone by nature or by the gods

### examples

- These are all contented with the endowments allotted to them. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endowment/#x1)
- Her great endowment is her singing voice. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endowment/#x2)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «endowment» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/E/endowment/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.