endeavor
UK/ɪnˈdɛv.ə//ɛnˈdɛv.ɚ/
endeavor noun: a sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
Noun
endeavor (plural endeavors)
- A sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
- My fellow Americans: Last night, when I spoke with you about the fall of Rome, I knew at that moment that troops of the United States and our allies were crossing the Channel in another and greater operation. It has come to pass with success thus far. And so, in this poignant hour, I ask you to...1944 June 6, Franklin D. Roosevelt, “Prayer on D-Day”, in Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Library and Museum, archived from the original on 29 Jun 2016
- Synonyms:
- pursuit, undertaking, activity, doings, enterprise, pursuance, venture
Verb
endeavor (third-person singular simple present endeavors, present participle endeavoring, simple past and past participle endeavored)
- To exert oneself.
- To attempt through application of effort (to do something); to try strenuously.
- She was endeavoring to teach us the elements of a good prose style.
- To attempt (something).
- To work with purpose.
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and...2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 13 Feb 2012, page 162
endeavor meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Bengali and Telugu
endeavor in Hindi
- a sincere attempt
- प्रयत्न prayatna, प्रयास prayās, जतन jatan, कोशिश kośiś
- enterprise; assiduous or persistent activity
- उपक्रम upakram, उद्यम udyam
- attempt through application of effort
- प्रयास करना prayās karnā, कोशिश करना kośiś karnā
endeavor in Tamil
- a sincere attempt
- முயற்சி muyaṟci
endeavor in Bengali
- endeavor, effort
- উদ্যোগ uddōg
endeavor in Telugu
- to endeavor;
- వీగు vīgu
More languagesFewer languages
- endeavor in Malayalam
- ആത്മാർത്ഥമായ ശ്രമം, ഉദ്യമം, അദ്ധ്വാനിക്കുക, പരിശ്രമിക്കുക
- endeavor in Arabic
- مُحَاوَلَة muḥāwala, غَايَة ḡāya
- endeavor in Malay
- usaha, ikhtiar
- endeavor in Persian
- کوشش kušeš, کوشش کردن kušeš kardan
- endeavor in Thai
- ความพยายาม kwaam-pá-yaa-yaam
- endeavor in Vietnamese
- cố gắng
Examples of endeavor in a sentence
- The king endeavored to fly his nation's flag over new territories.
- Creative couldn’t find anything for him to do, so they ended up future endeavoring him.
- Pickets normally endeavor to be non-violent.
Synonyms of endeavor
Forms of endeavor
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | endeavors |
| alternative form | endeavour |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | endeavors |
| present participle | endeavoring |
| past participle | endeavored |
| past | endeavored |
Origin of endeavor
The verb is from Middle English endeveren (“to make an effort”); the noun is from Middle English endevour, from the verb. Endeveren is from (putten) in dever (“(to put oneself) in duty”), from in + dever (“duty”), partially translating Middle French (se mettre) en devoir (de faire) (“(to make it) one's duty (to do), to endeavour (to do)”) (from Old French devoir, deveir (“duty”)).
Words formed from endeavor
Words that rhyme with endeavor
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Questions about endeavor
- What does endeavor mean?
- Endeavor means a sincere attempt; a determined or assiduous effort towards a specific goal; assiduous or persistent activity.
- What is endeavor in Hindi?
- Endeavor in Hindi is प्रयत्न (prayatna), प्रयास (prayās), जतन (jatan). See Endeavor meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is endeavor?
- Endeavor can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce endeavor?
- Endeavor is pronounced /ɪnˈdɛv.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of endeavor?
- The plural of endeavor is endeavors.
Words near endeavor in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: endeavor (page history and authors); উদ্যোগ (Bengali) (page history and authors); వీగు (Telugu) (page history and authors); endeavor (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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