Endeavour Meaning
/ɪnˈdɛv.ə/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounBritish standard spelling of endeavor.
nameA Space Shuttle orbiter, the last of five built by NASA.
Sentence Examples
If you endeavour, fate will favour you.
We will endeavour to finish the job by the end of the week.
There have been great advances in the field of scientific endeavour.
CEFR Practice Quiz
Her lifelong ____ to promote literacy inspired an entire generation of young readers.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Scientists will ____ to find a cure for the disease this year.
Word Origin & History
From endeavour.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"And these three: 1. the law over them that have sovereign power; 2. their duty; 3. their profit: are one and the same thing contained in this sentence, Salus populi suprema lex; by which must be understood, not the mere preservation of their lives, but generally their benefit and good. So that this is the general law for sovereigns: that they procure, to the uttermost of their endeavour, the good of the people."
— 1640, Thomas Hobbes, chapter 28, in The Elements of Law, part II:
"The like has been the endeavour of critics, logicians, and even politicians […]."
— 1748, David Hume, Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral, London: Oxford University Press, published 1973, § 9:
"As we shall find it necessary, in our endeavours to bring electrical phenomena within the province of dynamics, to have our dynamical ideas in a state fit for direct application to physical questions we shall devote this chapter to an exposition of these dynamical ideas from a physical point of view."
— 1873, J C Maxwell, A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism, volume 2, page 184:
"Universal Directory of Railway Officials and Railway Year Book, 1946-47. […] Although the preparation of the fifty-second edition of this well-known work proved a far from easy task, owing to the continuance of unsettled conditions in many parts of the world, the response to the endeavours of the publishers to obtain accurate and complete information has exceeded anything that would have been possible twelve months earlier."
— 1947 January and February, “Railway Literature”, in Railway Magazine, page 64:
"And such were Prais'd who but endeavour'd well."
— 1711 May, [Alexander Pope], An Essay on Criticism, London: […] W[illiam] Lewis […]; and sold by W[illiam] Taylor […], T[homas] Osborn[e] […], and J[ohn] Graves […], →OCLC:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Her lifelong ____ to promote literacy inspired an entire generation of young readers.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
Scientists will ____ to find a cure for the disease this year.