scholarship

English

Etymology

From scholar +‎ -ship.

Pronunciation

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

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

Derived terms

• pseudo-scholarship

Related terms

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

Translations

study allowance

• Albanian: bursë (sq) f
• Arabic: مِنْحَة دِرَاسِيَّة‎ f (minḥa dirāsiyya), إِعَانَة دِرَاسِيَّة‎ f (ʔiʕāna dirāsiyya)
• Armenian: կրթաթոշակ (hy) (krtʿatʿošak)
• Azerbaijani: təqaüd (az), stipendiya, təhsil təqaüdü
• Belarusian: стыпе́ндыя f (stypjéndyja), стыпэ́ндыя f (stypéndyja)
• Bengali: শিক্ষাবৃত্তি (śikkhabritti)
• Bulgarian: стипе́ндия f (stipéndija)
• Burmese: ပညာသင်ဆု (pa.nyasanghcu.)
• Catalan: beca (ca) f
• Chinese:

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

• Czech: stipendium (cs) n
• Danish: stipendium (da) n
• Dutch: studiebeurs (nl) m or f, stipendium (nl) n, beurs (nl) m or f
• Esperanto: stipendio
• Estonian: stipendium
• Finnish: apuraha (fi), stipendi (fi)
• French: bourse (fr) f, bourse d’études f
• Georgian: სტიპენდია (sṭiṗendia), გრანტი (granṭi)
• German: Stipendium (de) n
• Greek: υποτροφία (el) f (ypotrofía)
• Hebrew: מִלְגָּה‎ (he) f (milgá)
• Hindi: छात्रवृत्ति (hi) f (chātravŕtti), स्कालरशिप (hi) (skālarśip)
• Hungarian: ösztöndíj (hu)
• Icelandic: námsstyrkur m
• Ido: stipendio (io)
• Indonesian: beasiswa (id), dana siswa (id)
• Irish: scoláireacht f
• Italian: borsa di studio (it) f
• Japanese: 奨学金 (ja) (しょうがくきん, shōgakukin)
• Kalmyk: оютни цальң (oyutni tsalʹñ)
• Kazakh: стипендия (stipendiä), шәкіртақы (şäkırtaqy)
• Khmer: អាហារូបករណ៍ (km) (ʼaahaaruupaʼkɑɑ)
• Korean: 장학금(奬學金) (ko) (janghakgeum)
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: stîpend (ku)

• Kyrgyz: стипендия (ky) (stipendiya)
• Lao: ທຶນການສຶກສາ (lo) (thưn kān sưk sā)
• Latvian: stipendija f
• Lithuanian: stipendija f
• Macedonian: стипендија f (stipendija)
• Malay: biasiswa
• Maori: karahipi
• Mongolian:

  Cyrillic: тэтгэлэг (mn) (tetgeleg)

  Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠳᠬᠦᠯᠭᠡ (tädkülgä)

• Norwegian:

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

  Nynorsk: stipend n

• Pashto: سکالرشپ‎ (ps) m (skālaršip)
• Persian: بورسیه‎ (bursiye), کمک‌هزینه‎ (komak-hazine), بورس تحصیلی‎ (fa) (burs-e tahsili)
• Polish: stypendium (pl) n
• Portuguese: bolsa de estudos f
• Romanian: bursă (ro) f
• Russian: стипе́ндия (ru) f (stipéndija)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: стипѐндија f

  Roman: stipèndija (sh) f

• Slovak: štipendium n
• Slovene: štipendija (sl) f
• Spanish: beca (es) f
• Swedish: stipendium (sv) n
• Tagalog: paaral
• Tajik: стипендия (stipendiya)
• Thai: ทุนการศึกษา (tun-gaan-sʉ̀k-sǎa)
• Turkish: burs (tr), öğrenimlik (tr)
• Turkmen: stipendiýa
• Ukrainian: стипе́ндія (uk) f (stypéndija)
• Urdu: اِسْکالَر شِپ‎ (eskālar-śip)
• Uyghur: ستېپېندىيە‎ (stëpëndiye), ستىپېندىيە‎ (stipëndiye)
• Uzbek: stipendiya (uz)
• Vietnamese: học bổng (vi)

character or qualities of a scholar

• German: Gelehrsamkeit (de) f (archaic), Gelehrtheit f

knowledge

• Bengali: এলেম (bn) (elem)
• Bulgarian: наче́теност (bg) f (načétenost), еруди́ция (bg) f (erudícija)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 學問／学问 (zh) (xuéwen)

• Dutch: wetenschap (nl) f, kennis (nl) f
• Finnish: tietämys (fi), tiedot (fi) pl
• French: érudition (fr) f
• German: Gelehrtheit f , Erudiertheit f (elevated)
• Greek: ευρυμάθεια (el) f (evrymátheia), λογιότητα (el) f (logiótita)
• Ido: stipendio (io), erud-it-eso
• Irish: scoláireacht f
• Japanese: 教養 (ja) (きょうよう, kyōyō), 学識 (ja) (がくしき, gakushiki)
• Korean: 교양(敎養) (ko) (gyoyang), 학식(學識) (ko) (haksik)
• Malayalam: പാണ്ഡിത്യം (ml) (pāṇḍityaṁ)
• Polish: nauka (pl) f
• Portuguese: sabedoria (pt)
• Romanian: erudiție (ro) f
• Russian: эруди́ция (ru) f (erudícija), учёность (ru) f (učónostʹ), зна́ния (ru) n pl (znánija), начита́нность (ru) f (načitánnostʹ)
• 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 an institution 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. (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.
   • 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.