scholarship

English

Etymology

From scholar +‎ -ship.

Noun

Wikipedia 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

study allowance

• Arabic: منح دراسية (ar) (manH dirasiyya) f
• Catalan: beca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獎學金 (cmn), 奖学金 (cmn) (jiǎngxuéjīn)

• Czech: stipendium (cs) n
• Danish: stipendium (da)
• Dutch: studiebeurs (nl) f or m
• Finnish: apuraha (fi), stipendi (fi)
• French: bourse (fr) f
• German: Stipendium (de) n
• Greek: υποτροφία (el) (ypotrofía) f
• Hungarian: ösztöndíj (hu)

• Ido: stipendio
• Indonesian: beasiswa (id)
• Italian: borsa di studi f
• Japanese: 奨学金 (ja) (しょうがくきん, shōgakukin)
• Khmer: អាហារូបករណ៍ (km) (āhārūpaˈkɔː)
• Polish: stypendium (pl) n
• Portuguese: bolsa de estudos (pt)
• Russian: стипендия (ru) (stipéndija) f
• Serbo-Croatian: stipèndija (sh)
• Spanish: beca (es) f
• Swedish: stipendium (sv)
• Vietnamese: học bổng (vi)

knowledge

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學問 (cmn), 学问 (cmn) (xuéwen)

• Finnish: tietämys (fi), tiedot (fi) pl
• French: érudition (fr) f
• German: Gelehrsamkeit (de) f (archaic)
• Greek: ευρυμάθεια (el) (evrymátheia) f, λογιότητα (el) (logiótita) f

• Ido: stipendio, erud-it-eso
• Portuguese: sabedoria (pt)
• Russian: эрудиция (ru) (erudícija) f, учёность (ru) (učónost') f, знания (ru) (znánija) n pl
• Spanish: erudición (es) f, sabiduría (es) f
• Telugu: పాండిత్యము (te)