Scholarship
['skɒləʃɪp] or ['skɑlɚʃɪp]
Definition
(noun.) financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit.
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Definition
(n.) The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.
(n.) Literary education.
(n.) Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Learning, erudition, knowledge, attainments, acquirements, acquired knowledge.[2]. Maintenance for a student.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Lore, learning, erudition, attainments, culture,[See LEARNING]
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Examples
- I must explain to you, Mr. Holmes, that to-morrow is the first day of the examination for the Fortescue Scholarship. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Hence simple scholarship is not enough. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- There was a very considerable amount of Greek scholarship, and of written criticism and commentary. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- His very name carried an impressiveness hardly to be measured without a precise chronology of scholarship. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- In the second place, the method of organization of the material of achieved scholarship differs from that of the beginner. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Mr. Zimmern's approach is common enough in modern scholarship, but the full significance of it for the creeds we ourselves are making is still something of a novelty. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The charitable foundations of scholarships, exhibitions, bursaries, etc. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
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