scholarship
UK/ˈskɒləʃɪp/US/ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/
scholarship noun: a grant-in-aid to a student.
Noun
scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)
- 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.2013, Stuart Wolfendale, Imperial to International, page 192
- 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.2016 September 15, Riz Ahmed, “Typecast as a terrorist”, in The Guardian
- The character or qualities of a scholar.
- The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
- Synonyms:
- scholarly method
- 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!2010, Michael T. Cooper, Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study, →ISBN
- The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.
Verb
scholarship (third-person singular simple present scholarships, present participle scholarshiping or scholarshipping, simple past and past participle scholarshiped or scholarshipped)
- To attend an institution on a scholarship.
- Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy, →ISBN, page 205
- To grant a scholarship to.
- In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.2006, Lloyd Reeb, Unlimited Partnership, →ISBN, page 138
- Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.2012, Bernard W. Taylor, Introduction to Management Science:, page 632
scholarship meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
scholarship in Hindi
- study allowance
- छात्रवृत्ति chātravŕtti, स्कालरशिप skālarśip
scholarship in Tamil
- கட்பு, புலமைப்பரிசில், புலமை
scholarship in Urdu
- study allowance
- اِسْکالَر شِپ eskālar-śip
scholarship in Bengali
- study allowance
- শিক্ষাবৃত্তি śikkhabritti
- knowledge
- এলেম elem
More languagesFewer languages
- scholarship in Telugu
- పాండిత్యము pāṇḍityamu
- scholarship in Malayalam
- പാണ്ഡിത്യം pāṇḍityaṁ
- scholarship in Gujarati
- શિષ્યવૃત્તિ śiṣyavŕtti, છાત્રવૃત્તિ chātravŕtti
- scholarship in Sanskrit
- विद्या vidyā́
- scholarship in Pashto
- سکالرشپ skālaršip
- scholarship in Tagalog
- paaral, pagkapalaaral
- scholarship in Arabic
- مِنْحَة دِرَاسِيَّة minḥa dirāsiyya, إِعَانَة دِرَاسِيَّة ʔiʕāna dirāsiyya, مِنْحة
- scholarship in Malay
- biasiswa
- scholarship in Indonesian
- beasiswa, dana siswa
- scholarship in Persian
- بورسیه bursiye, کمکهزینه komak-hazine, بورس تحصیلی burs-e tahsili
- scholarship in Thai
- ทุนการศึกษา tun-gaan-sʉ̀k-sǎa
- scholarship in Vietnamese
- học bổng, học thuật, học vấn
- scholarship in Myanmar
- ပညာသင်ဆု pa.nyasanghcu.
Examples of scholarship in a sentence
- He said he wanted a fair go to apply for the scholarship.
- She checked her eligibility for the scholarship.
- Amy was given a scholarship thanks to her excellent grades.
Synonyms of scholarship
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Forms of scholarship
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | scholarships |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | scholarships |
| present participle | scholarshiping |
| present participle | scholarshipping |
| past participle | scholarshiped |
| past | scholarshiped |
| past participle | scholarshipped |
| past | scholarshipped |
Origin of scholarship
From scholar + -ship.
Words formed from scholarship
Questions about scholarship
- What does scholarship mean?
- Scholarship means a grant-in-aid to a student.
- What is scholarship in Hindi?
- Scholarship in Hindi is छात्रवृत्ति (chātravŕtti), स्कालरशिप (skālarśip). See Scholarship meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is scholarship?
- Scholarship can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce scholarship?
- Scholarship is pronounced /ˈskɒləʃɪp/ (UK).
- What is the plural of scholarship?
- The plural of scholarship is scholarships.
Words near scholarship in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: scholarship (page history and authors); scholarship (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); છાત્રવૃત્તિ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); विद्या (Sanskrit) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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