scholarship

English Online Dictionary. What means scholarship‎? What does scholarship mean?

English

Etymology

From scholar +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈskɒləʃɪp/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/

Noun

scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)

1. A grant-in-aid to a student.
2. The character or qualities of a scholar.
3. The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
4. (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
5. (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

Synonyms

• (money to assist a student to study): allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary
• (character of a scholar):
• (activity of a scholar): scholarly method
• (knowledge accrued by the activity of scholars):

Derived terms

• pseudo-scholarship
• scholarshipper

Related terms

• school
• scholar, scholarly
• scholarism (archaic)
• scholastic, scholasticism
• scholasticate

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Verb

scholarship (third-person singular simple present scholarships, present participle scholarshiping or scholarshipping, simple past and past participle scholarshiped or scholarshipped)

1. (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.
2. (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.

References

• “scholarship”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• scholarship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia