scholarship
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)
- A grant-in-aid to a student.
- 2013, Stuart Wolfendale, Imperial to International, page 192:
- There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.
- 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.
- 2010, Michael T. Cooper, Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study, →ISBN:
- I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!
- (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.
Synonyms
[edit]- (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
[edit]Related terms
[edit]- school
- scholar, scholarly
- scholarism (archaic)
- scholastic, scholasticism
- scholasticate
Translations
[edit]study allowance
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character or qualities of a scholar
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knowledge
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See also
[edit]Verb
[edit]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.
- 2012, Bernard W. Taylor, Introduction to Management Science:[3], page 632:
- Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.
References
[edit]- “scholarship”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- scholarship on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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