What does endowment mean?

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The noun endowment has a couple of different meanings but generally speaking it refers to a big sum of money being donated to an organisation, hospital, school, etc.
 
This money is used to create the organisation, to fund it or to support it in some way.
 
Endowment is also used to refer to a person’s natural talent or quality such as a natural ability to play a musical instrument or to play a sport or to solve mathematical problems or to be naturally beautiful. This natural ability can be seen as a person’s endowment also.

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