Usually means: Grant or confer as gift.
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  1. bestow: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. bestow: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bestow: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bestow: Collins English Dictionary
  5. bestow: Vocabulary.com
  6. Bestow, bestow: Wordnik
  7. bestow: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. bestow: Wiktionary
  9. bestow: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. bestow: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. bestow: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. bestow: Dictionary.com
  13. bestow: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. bestow: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Bestow: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. bestow: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. bestow: Rhymezone
  18. Bestow: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. bestow: Free Dictionary
  20. bestow: Mnemonic Dictionary
  21. bestow: Dictionary/thesaurus

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  1. bestow: Legal dictionary

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  1. bestow: Encyclopedia

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  1. bestow: Idioms

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. BESTOW: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

(Note: See bestowal as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
verb:  To apply or make use of (someone or something); to employ, to use.
verb:  (specifically, obsolete) To apply (money) for some purpose; to expend, to spend.
verb:  To impart (something) gratuitously; to present (something) to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; to confer, to give, to accord.
verb:  (archaic)
verb:  To place or put (someone or something) somewhere or in a certain situation; to dispose of.
verb:  To deposit (something) for safekeeping; to lay up (something) in store; to stow.
verb:  (also reflexive) To provide (someone or oneself) with accommodation; to find quarters for (someone or oneself); to lodge, to quarter.
verb:  (obsolete)
verb:  (reflexive) To behave or conduct (oneself); to acquit.
verb:  (also reflexive) To give (someone or oneself) in marriage.
noun:  (obsolete, rare) An act of presenting a thing to someone or something, especially as a gift or an honour; a bestowal.

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