scholarship

noun

1. 1

   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.

   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.

   There is a significant investment in scholarships and fellowships and traineeships, so that we are also making sure that we’re investing in domestic work force.

2. 2

   The character or qualities of a scholar.

3. 3

   The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.

4. 4

   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!

5. 5

   datedThe first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

verb

1. 1

   To attend an institution on a scholarship.

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

2. 2

   To grant a scholarship to.

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

   Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.

Forms

plural

scholarships

past tense

scholarshiped, scholarshipped

past participle

scholarshiped, scholarshipped

present participle

scholarshiping, scholarshipping

third person singular

scholarships