endeavour

Reading level: medium

Estimated CEFR level: B1 — Intermediate

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

noun a purposeful or industrious undertaking (especially one that requires effort or boldness)
noun earnest and conscientious activity intended to do or accomplish something
verb attempt by employing effort

But success shall crown my endeavours. — Frankenstein; or, the modern prometheus, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
ENDEAVOURS TO ESTABLISH A POSITIVE THEORY. — On War, Carl von Clausewitz
She had relinquished the endeavour, but too late. — A pair of blue eyes, Thomas Hardy

enterprise, endeavor

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