endowment

Other forms of endowment

plural

endowments·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about endowment

What does endowment mean?

endowment means "natural abilities or qualities". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in endowment?

endowment has 3 syllables: en-dow-ment. The stress falls on "dow". In IPA it is /ɛnˈdaʊmənt/.

What is another word for endowment?

Close synonyms include gift, talent, natural endowment, endowment fund. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is endowment a common word?

endowment is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.