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.
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.

• (money to assist a student to study): allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary
• (character of a scholar):
• (activity of a scholar):
• (knowledge accrued by the activity of scholars):

• 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 on a scholarship.
   • 2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy‎, →ISBN, page 205:

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

2. To grant a scholarship.
   • 2006, Lloyd Reeb, Unlimited Partnership‎, →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:‎, 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.