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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 qualitiesplay

  Familiarity information: NATURAL ENDOWMENT used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


NATURAL ENDOWMENT (noun)


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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