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)
- A grant-in-aid to a student.
- The character or qualities of a scholar.
- The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
- (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
- (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
Related terms
- school
- scholar, scholarly
- scholarism (archaic)
- scholastic, scholasticism
- scholasticate
Translations
Verb
scholarship (third-person singular simple present scholarships, present participle scholarshiping or scholarshipping, simple past and past participle scholarshiped or scholarshipped)
- (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.
- (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.