scholarship

English

Etymology

From scholar +‎ -ship.

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Pronunciation

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

• Audio (AU):

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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):
• (knowledge accrued by the activity of scholars):

Related terms

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

Translations

study allowance

• Arabic: مَنْح دِرَاسِيَّة f (manḥ dirāsiyya)
• Armenian: կրթաթոշակ (hy) (krtʻatʻošak)
• Catalan: beca (ca) f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 獎學金／奖学金 (zh) (jiǎngxuéjīn), 奖学金 (zh) (jiǎngxuéjīn)

• Czech: stipendium (cs) n
• Danish: stipendium (da)
• Dutch: studiebeurs (nl) f or m
• Esperanto: stipendio (eo)
• Finnish: apuraha (fi), stipendi (fi)
• French: bourse (fr) f
• Georgian: სტიპენდია (sṭiṗendia), გრანტი (granṭi)
• German: Stipendium (de) n
• Greek: υποτροφία (el) f (ypotrofía)
• Hungarian: ösztöndíj (hu)
• Ido: stipendio (io)
• Indonesian: beasiswa (id)
• Irish: scoláireacht f
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• Italian: borsa di studio (it) f
• Japanese: 奨学金 (ja) (しょうがくきん, shōgakukin)
• Kalmyk: оютни цальң (oyutni tsalʹñ)
• Khmer: អាហារូបករណ៍ (km) (āhārūpaˈkɔː)
• Malay: biasiswa
• Maori: karahipi
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: stipend (no) n, stipendium (no) n

  Nynorsk: stipend n

• Polish: stypendium (pl) n
• Portuguese: bolsa de estudos
• Romanian: bursă (ro) f
• Russian: стипе́ндия (ru) f (stipéndija)
• Serbo-Croatian: stipèndija (sh)
• Spanish: beca (es) f
• Swedish: stipendium (sv)
• Tagalog: paaral
• Vietnamese: học bổng (vi)

knowledge

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學問／学问 (zh) (xuéwèn), 学问 (zh) (xuéwen)

• Finnish: tietämys (fi), tiedot (fi) pl
• French: érudition (fr) f
• German: Gelehrsamkeit (de) f (archaic)
• Greek: ευρυμάθεια (el) f (evrymátheia), λογιότητα (el) f (logiótita)
• Ido: stipendio (io), erud-it-eso
• Irish: scoláireacht f
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• Japanese: 教養 (ja) (kyouyou), 学識 (gakushiki)
• Portuguese: sabedoria (pt)
• Romanian: erudiție (ro) f
• Russian: эруди́ция (ru) f (erudícija), учёность (ru) f (učónostʹ), зна́ния (ru) n pl (znánija)
• Spanish: erudición (es) f, sabiduría (es) f
• Tagalog: pagkapalaaral
• Telugu: పాండిత్యము (te) (pāṇḍityamu)
• Vietnamese: học thuật (vi), học vấn (vi)

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 on a scholarship.
   • 2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy‎^[1], →ISBN, 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^[2], →ISBN, 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:‎^[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.