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From scholar + -ship.

scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)

  1. A grant-in-aid to a student.
    Synonyms: allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary, fellowship
    • 2013, Stuart Wolfendale, Imperial to International, page 192:
      There were proposals to revive choir scholarships, because a shortage of regular choristers meant that weddings often went choirless.
    • 2016 September 15, Riz Ahmed, “Typecast as a terrorist”, in The Guardian‎[1]:
      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.
    • 2021 May 18, Catie Edmondson, quoting Debbie Altenburg, “Senate Weighs Investing $120 Billion in Science to Counter China”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN, archived from the original on 2 June 2021:
      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. The character or qualities of a scholar.
  3. The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
    Synonym: scholarly method
  4. (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
    Synonyms: learning, erudition, education, knowledge
    • 2010, Michael T. Cooper, Contemporary Druidry: A Historical and Ethnographic Study, →ISBN:
      I found the website and found people mingling scholarship with faith – great googly moogly!
  5. (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

study allowance

knowledge

scholarship (third-person singular simple present scholarships, present participle scholarshiping or scholarshipping, simple past and past participle scholarshiped or scholarshipped)

  1. (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.
    • 2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy‎[3], →ISBN, page 205:
      Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.
  2. (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.
    • 2006, Lloyd Reeb, Unlimited Partnership‎[4], →ISBN, page 138:
      In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.
    • 2012, Bernard W. Taylor, Introduction to Management Science:‎[5], page 632:
      Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.