English

Noun

scholarship ‎(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.

Related terms

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

Synonyms

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

Translations

Verb

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

1. (intransitive) To attend on a scholarship.
   • 2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy, ISBN 0295802669, page 205:

     Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.

2. To grant a scholarship.
   • 2006, Lloyd Reeb, Unlimited Partnership, ISBN 0805444505, page 138:

     In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.

   • 2012, Bernard W. Taylor, Introduction to Management Science:, 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.