Scholarship

Quick meaning: Scholarship is a noun meaning A grant-in-aid to a student.

Meaning

A grant-in-aid to a student.

More Meanings

1. The character or qualities of a scholar.
2. The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
3. (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
4. (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.
5. (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.
6. (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

Example Sentences

I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!

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

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

There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.

Word Forms

• scholarships
• scholarshiping
• scholarshipping
• scholarshiped
• scholarshipped

Synonyms for scholarship

Depending on context, synonyms include allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary, fellowship.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include learning, learnedness, erudition, bursary, internship, stipend.

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