French Conversation · Level 166
15 words
French word
doter
Pronunciation
IPA/dote/
Meaning
- verbprovide
Example
Le comité a doté le lauréat d'une bourse.
The committee provided the winner with a scholarship.
More examples
La ville s'est dotée d'un nouveau réseau de vélos en libre-service.
The city equipped itself with a new bike-sharing network.
Core concept
A person, project, or place is equipped with an enabling endowment.
Common phrases
se doter de moyens
equip oneself with resources
doter quelqu'un de compétences
equip someone with skills
Similar words
donner: Hand over an object or right so that another person possesses it.
fournir: Supply the goods or services needed to make something ready.
Definition in French
Accorder à quelqu'un ou à quelque chose une dotation matérielle, financière ou honorifique destinée à lui permettre d'exister ou de remplir une fonction.
Word origin
Doter developed in French from Latin dotare, whose source dos, dotis referred to a gift or dowry.
Usage tips
- Doter is more formal than donner and is common in administrative, institutional, and journalistic writing.
Other meanings
- endowverb
- equipverb
Opposites
- priverdepriveverb
Related words
- dotéequippedadjective
- dotationallocationnoun