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NATURAL ENDOWMENT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does natural endowment mean?
• NATURAL ENDOWMENT (noun)
The noun NATURAL ENDOWMENT has 1 sense:
1. natural abilities or qualities
Familiarity information: NATURAL ENDOWMENT used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Natural abilities or qualities
Classified under:
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents
Synonyms:
endowment; gift; natural endowment; talent
Hypernyms ("natural endowment" is a kind of...):
natural ability (ability that is inherited)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "natural endowment"):
bent; hang; knack (a special way of doing something)
flair; genius (a natural talent)
raw talent (powerfully impressive talent)
Context examples
A few slight indications of a rather petted and capricious manner, which I observed in the Beauty, were manifestly considered, by Traddles and his wife, as her birthright and natural endowment.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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