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scholarship
Overview
This page has 7 definitions of scholarship in English. Scholarship is a noun and verb. Also define these 10 related words and terms: grant-in-aid, student, character, quality, scholar, activity, method, attainment, knowledge, and high school.
English
Etymology
Pronunciation
Noun
scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)
- A grant-in-aid to a student.
Student definition
A person who studies or learns about a particular subject. (1 of 3 student definitions)
- The character or qualities of a scholar.
Scholar definition
A student; one who studies at school or college, typically having a scholarship. (1 of 3 scholar definitions)
- The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
Method definition
A process by which a task is completed; a way of doing something (followed by the adposition of, to or for before the purpose of the process). (1 of 5 method definitions)
Attainment definition
The act of attaining; the act of arriving at or reaching; the act of obtaining by exertion or effort. (1 of 2 attainment definitions)
- (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
Knowledge definition
The fact of knowing about something; general understanding or familiarity with a subject, place, situation etc. (1 of 12 knowledge definitions)
- (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.
High School definition
An institution which provides all or part of secondary education. (1 of 2 high school definitions)
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):
Related terms
- school
- scholar, scholarly
- scholarism (archaic)
- scholastic, scholasticism
- scholasticate
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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.
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- Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.
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- (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.
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- In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.
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- Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.
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