scholarship

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   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.

2. 2
   noun

   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!

3. 3
   verb

   To attend an institution on a scholarship.

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

4. 4
   verb

   To grant a scholarship to.

   In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.

5. 5
   noun

   profound scholarly knowledge

6. 6
   noun

   financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit

7. 7
   noun

   The character or qualities of a scholar.

8. 8
   noun

   The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.

Etymology

From scholar + -ship.