stipend
Syllables: sti·pend/ˈstaɪpɛnd/US/ˈstaɪˌpɛnd/
stipend noun: a regular fixed payment made to someone (especially a clergyman, judge, soldier, or teacher) for services provided by them; a salary.
Noun
stipend (plural stipends)
- A regular fixed payment made to someone (especially a clergyman, judge, soldier, or teacher) for services provided by them; a salary.
- He ſent for Ariſtotle (the greateſt Philoſopher in his time, & beſt learned) to teach his ſonne, vnto vvhom he gaue honorable ſtipend.1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “The Life of Alexander the Great”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 725
- For Cynthia doth in ſciences abound, / And giues to their profeſſors ſtipends large.1595, Ed. Spencer [i.e., Edmund Spenser], Colin Clouts Come Home Againe, London: […] T[homas] C[reede] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, signature D3, recto
- Some other form of fixed (and generally small) payment occurring at regular intervals, such as an allowance, a pension, or (obsolete) a tax.
- My stipend for doing public service is barely enough to cover living expenses.
- The Romaynes, […] appointed alſo the Cenſores to allovv out of the common butche^([sic – meaning hutche]) yearely ſtipendes, for the findings of certaine geeſe; […]1545, Roger Ascham, Toxophilus, the Schole of Shootinge […], London: […] Edouardi Whytchurch, →OCLC
- A scholarship granted to a student.
- Money which is earned; an income.
- And that knights competency you haue gotten / VVith care and labour: he vvith luſt and idleneſſe / VVill bring into the ſtypend of a begger; […]1604 (first performance), George Chapman, Al Fooles: A Comedy, […], London: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorpe, published 1605, →OCLC, Act I
- A one-off payment for a service provided.
- ["H]e [Jesus] vvas man, he took upon him our ſins;" Not the vvork of ſin, I mean not ſo, not to do it, not to commit it, but to purge it, to cleanſe it, to bear the ſtipend of it: […]1549 April 28 (Gregorian calendar), Hugh Latimer, “Sermon XI. Being the Seventh Sermon Preached before King Edward VI. April the Nineteenth.”, in The Sermons of the Right Reverend Father in God...
- This fight vvas ſo vvell performed, that a report vvent currant, of Castor and Pollux, tvvo Gods, vvho came on milke-vvhite Steeds, to be eye vvitneſſes of their valour, and fellovv helpers of their victorie; for the Generall conſecrated a Temple to them, as a ſtipend for their paines.1614, Walter Ralegh [i.e., Walter Raleigh], “The Growth of Rome: And Setling of the Easterne Kingdomes”, in The Historie of the World […], London: […] William Stansby for Walter Burre, […], →OCLC...
Verb
stipend (third-person singular simple present stipends, present participle stipending, simple past and past participle stipended)
- To provide (someone) with a stipend (an allowance, a pension, a salary, etc.).
- I, Sir, am a Phyſician, and am ſtipended in this Iland to bee ſo to the Gouernours of it: and I am much more carefull of their health, then of mine ovvn; ſtudying night & day, and vveighing the complexion of the Gouernour, that I may hit the better vpon the curing him, vvhenſoeuer hee falls ſicke...1620, [Miguel de Cervantes], “How Sancho Demeaned Himselfe in His Gouernment”, in Thomas Shelton, transl., The Second Part of the History of the Valorous and Witty Knight-errant, Don Quixote of the...
- The recently discovered "Letters of Daniel Defoe," existing in the Record Office, leave no doubt of the Government practice of suborning and stipending newspaper proprietors and writers connected with them was as old as the times of the "Mercurius Politicus," and other contemporaneous newspapers...1867, Richard Robert Madden, chapter I, in The History of Irish Periodical Literature, from the End of the 17th to the Middle of the 19th Century, […], volume I, London: T[homas] C[autley] Newby...
stipend meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Urdu and Bengali
stipend in Hindi
- regular fixed payment made to someone for services provided by them — see also salary
- वृत्तिका vŕttikā
stipend in Tamil
- கல்வி உதவித் தொகை
stipend in Urdu
- مشاہرہ, روزینہ, وظیفہ
stipend in Bengali
- regular fixed payment made to someone for services provided by them — see also salary
- মাশহরা maśhora
More languagesFewer languages
- stipend in Malayalam
- ധനസഹായം, പരിശീലനകാലത്തേക്കുള്ള വേതനം
- stipend in Kannada
- ಸಂಬಳ, ಪಡಿ, ಹಡದೆ, ಶಿಷ್ಯವೃತ್ತಿ
- stipend in Persian
- مقرری moqarrari, ورستاد varestâd
- stipend in Thai
- เบี้ยเลี้ยง
Examples of stipend in a sentence
- That Stipend is a carnal vveed / He takes but for the faſhion; / And gie him o'er the flock, to feed, / And puniſh each tranſgreſſion; […]1787, Robert Burns, “The Ordination”, in Poems, Chiefly in the Scottish Dialect. […], 2nd edition, volume I, Edinburgh: […] T[homas]...
- What have I been paying stipend and teind parsonage and vicarage for, ever sin' the aughty-nine, an' I canna get a spell of a prayer for't, the only time I ever asked for ane in my life?1818 July 25, Jedediah Cleishbotham [pseudonym; Walter Scott], chapter VII, in Tales of My Landlord, Second Series, […] (The Heart of...
- By this memorable law it was, in the Scotch phrase, statuted and ordained that every parish in the realm should provide a commodious schoolhouse and should pay a moderate stipend to a schoolmaster.1851, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter XXII, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume IV, London...
- The king of Palibotræ kept in ſtipend, eight thouſand euery day, […]1607, Conradus Gesnerus [i.e., Conrad Gessner]; Edward Topsell, “Of the Elephant”, in The Historie of Foure-footed Beastes. […], London...
Forms of stipend
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | stipends |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | stipends |
| present participle | stipending |
| past participle | stipended |
| past | stipended |
Origin of stipend
The noun is derived from Late Middle English stipend, stipende (“salary, wage”) [and other forms], from Old French stipende, stipendie, from Latin stīpendium (“contribution; dues; impost, tax; tribute; military pay or stipend; military service”), from *stipipendium, *stippendium, from stips (“alms; contribution, donation, gift”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *steyp- (“erect; stiff”)) + pendere (the present active infinitive of pendō (“to cause to hang down or suspend; to weigh, weigh out; (hence) to pay”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pend- (“to pull; to spin; to stretch”)) + -ium (suffix forming abstract nouns). The verb is derived from the noun. Cognates * Italian stipendio * Portuguese estipêndio * Spanish estipendio
Words formed from stipend
Questions about stipend
- What does stipend mean?
- Stipend means a regular fixed payment made to someone (especially a clergyman, judge, soldier, or teacher) for services provided by them; a salary.
- What is stipend in Hindi?
- Stipend in Hindi is वृत्तिका (vŕttikā). See Stipend meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use stipend in a sentence?
- That Stipend is a carnal vveed / He takes but for the faſhion; / And gie him o'er the flock, to feed, / And puniſh each tranſgreſſion; […]
- What part of speech is stipend?
- Stipend can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce stipend?
- Stipend is pronounced /ˈstaɪpɛnd/ (UK).
- What is the plural of stipend?
- The plural of stipend is stipends.
Words near stipend in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: stipend (page history and authors); stipend (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stipend (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stipend (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); stipend (Kannada Wiktionary) (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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