scholarship

From scholar +‎ -ship.

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

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scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)

1. A grant-in-aid to a student.
   • 2013, Stuart Wolfendale, Imperial to International, page 192:

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

   • 2016 September 15, Riz Ahmed, “Typecast as a terrorist”, in The Guardian‎^[1]:

     Since I was a teenager I have had to play different characters, negotiating the cultural expectations of a Pakistani family, Brit-Asian rudeboy culture, and a scholarship to private school.

   • 2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times‎^[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 June 2021:

     There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.

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.
   • 2010, Michael T. Cooper, Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study, →ISBN:

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

5. (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

• (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):

• pseudo-scholarship
• scholarshipper

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

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

1. (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.
   • 2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy‎^[3], →ISBN, page 205:

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

2. (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.
   • 2006, Lloyd Reeb, Unlimited Partnership‎^[4], →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:‎^[5], 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.

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