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endow
English
Etymology
From Late Middle English endowen, endouen, enduen, indouen, indw (“to provide with assets, a livelihood, or privileges; to bestow, grant; (figuratively) to favour; to endow”), from Anglo-Norman endouer, from Old French en- (prefix meaning ‘in, into’) + douer (“to endow”) (from Latin d?t?re (present active infinitive of d?t? (“to endow”)); modern French douer). D?t? is derived from d?s (“dowry; endowment, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *deh?- (“to give”)) + -? (suffix forming regular first-conjugation verbs).
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?n?da?/, /?n-/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?n?da?/
- Rhymes: -a?
- Hyphenation: en?dow
Verb
endow (third-person singular simple present endows, present participle endowing, simple past and past participle endowed)
- (transitive, archaic or obsolete) To provide with a dower (“the portion that a widow receives from her deceased husband's property”) or a dowry (“property given to a bride”).
- (transitive) To give property to (someone) as a gift; specifically, to provide (a person or institution) with support in the form of a permanent fund of money or other benefits.
- (transitive) Followed by with, or rarely by of: to enrich or furnish with some faculty or quality.
- Synonym: begift
- (transitive) Usually in the passive: to naturally furnish (with something).
- Synonyms: bless, gift
Conjugation
Alternative forms
- indow (obsolete)
Derived terms
Related terms
Translations
References
Further reading
- financial endowment on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Anagrams
- Downe, Woden, downe, nowed, owned, woned
endow From the web:
- what endowment
- what endowed means
- what endowment policy
- what endowment plan
- what's endowment funds
- what's endowment insurance
- what endowment policy means
- what endowments do
colour
English
Alternative forms
- color (American spelling)
Pronunciation
Homophone: culler
Noun
colour (countable and uncountable, plural colours) (British spelling, Canadian spelling)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Adjective
colour (not comparable)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Related terms
- colourimeter
Verb
colour (third-person singular simple present colours, present participle colouring, simple past and past participle coloured)
- Australia, Canada, Ireland, New Zealand, South Africa, and Britain standard spelling of color.
Derived terms
Anagrams
- courol, ur-cool
Middle English
Alternative forms
- colur, color, culur, coler, coloure, kolour
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman colur, from Latin color.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ku?lu?r/, /?kulur/
Noun
colour (plural colours or coloures)
- colour, hue, shade
- pigment, dye (substance for colouring)
- method (literary or rhetorical)
- justification, explanation (often feigned)
Descendants
- English: color, colour
- Scots: colour
References
- “c?l?ur, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-03-30.
See also
Old French
Noun
colour f (oblique plural colours, nominative singular colour, nominative plural colours)
- (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of color
colour From the web:
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- what colours go with grey sofa
- what colour goes with dark purple
- what colours go with grey walls
- what colour are my eyes
- what colours make brown
- what colour is precum
- what colour is the sun
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