Associations to the word «Endowed»

Wiktionary

ENDOWED, verb. Simple past tense and past participle of endow
ENDOWED, adjective. Pertaining to an endowment, as with an endowed chair at a university.
ENDOWED CHAIR, noun. (chiefly US) An endowed faculty position which is supported by the annual payout from a privately funded endowment. The endowment may cover the faculty salary, research and travel stipends or other associated costs and continues in perpetuity.
ENDOWED CHAIRS, noun. Plural of endowed chair

Dictionary definition

ENDOWED, adjective. Provided or supplied or equipped with (especially as by inheritance or nature); "a well-endowed college"; "endowed with good eyesight"; "endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights".

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats