scholarship
//ˈskɒləʃɪp//
Forms
- Plural
- scholarships
- present (v1)
- scholarship
- past (v2)
- scholarshiped
- past participle (v3)
- scholarshiped
- present participle
- scholarshiping
- 3rd person singular
- scholarships
Definitions
1.A grant-in-aid to a student.
- There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.
- 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.
- 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.
2.The character or qualities of a scholar.
3.The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
4.The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
- I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!
1.To attend an institution on a scholarship.
- Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.
2.To grant a scholarship to.
- In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.
- Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.
Frequency
Overall
Uncommon· #3446
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
Etymology tree
English scholar
Proto-Germanic *skapjaną
Proto-Germanic *-skapiz
Proto-West Germanic *-skapi
Old English -sċiepe
Middle English -schipe
English -ship
English scholarship
From scholar + -ship.