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Definitions: Scholarship |
ScholarshipNoun1. Financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit. 2. Profound knowledge. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "scholarship" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1590. (references) |
| Domain | Definitions |
Education | A payment from the funds of a school, university, local government, etc. , to maintain a student in full-time education, awarded on the basis of scholarly achievement. Source: European Union. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Synonyms: ScholarshipSynonyms: eruditeness (n), erudition (n), learnedness (n), learning (n). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Knowledge | Erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania, bibliolatry; information, general information; store of knowledge; education; (teaching); culture, menticulture, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge; (skill); liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments; (beginning). |
Language | Literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres, muses, humanities, literae humaniores, republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship; (scholar). |
Learning | Noun: learning; acquisition of knowledge; acquisition of skill; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self-instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Scholarship |
| English words defined with "scholarship": Clerkliness, commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensical ♦ meanspirited ♦ philologist, philologue ♦ report, report card ♦ scholar, Scholarity, scholarly, see through, support ♦ ungenerous ♦ Wooden spoon. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "scholarship": Coalition for Networked Information ♦ director of financial aid and placements, director of student aid, Doctor Syntax, Dutch Education Learning at Top-level Abroad ♦ FINANCIAL-AIDS OFFICER, FOREIGN-STUDENT ADVISER ♦ Leveraging Educational Assistance Partnership Program ♦ obert C. Byrd Honors Scholarship ♦ University of Durham ♦ visiting-student counselor. (references) |
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Screenplays | Hey! It is not a beauty pageant. It is a scholarship program. (Miss Congeniality; writing credit: Marc Lawrence; Katie Ford) He's a real special kid and I have high hopes for him. I think if he works really hard, he can get an academic scholarship to Wabash College and get out of this place. (Hoosiers; writing credit: Angelo Pizzo) I haven't even told my father I'm not gonna get that scholarship. I'm gonna end up working in a lumberyard the rest of my life. (Caddyshack; writing credit: Brian Doyle-Murray; Harold Ramis) On a scholarship. (American Graffiti; writing credit: George Lucas ; Gloria Katz) I was sure I was going to get that scholarship. My dad of course was sure I wasn't. (Breaking Away; writing credit: Steve Tesich) | |
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| Thumbnail | Description & Credit | ![]() | Caption: Charles Edison Awarding Souvenir Medals to Gordon Burns and Joseph Kingsbury, Former Edison Scholarship Contestants, on the Tenth Anniversary of the 1930 Competition; West Orange, NJ; August 24, 1940; {13.200/52} (jpg). |
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| Author | Quotation |
James Russell Lowell | True scholarship consists in knowing not what things exist, but what they mean; it is not memory but judgment. |
Josiah Gilbert Holland | Scholarship except by accident is never the measure of a person's power. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Another important aspect to the market is the wide availability of scholarship support for Kuwaiti students studying abroad. (references) | |
Many of these non-citizens come from very affluent families with deep ties to Kuwait and they generally demonstrate outstanding scholarship. (references) | ||
With over 1,200 scholarship and perhaps an almost equal number of private students, the U.S is easily the preferred destination for Kuwaiti students seeking study abroad opportunities. (references) | ||
Children | Burkina Faso | The Government has set up a scholarship program for female secondary students to encourage them to stay in school. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Cote d'Ivoire | The students were demanding an increase in the number of scholarships and a list of scholarship recipients. (references) |
Niger | On February 21, at Kennedy Bridge in Niamey, police forcibly dispersed a group of students who were protesting scholarship arrears and education austerity measures. (references) | |
Economic History | Iceland | These activities will highlight, among other areas, shared culture, scholarship and research, scientific discovery and exploration, pioneer legacy, and the strong defense relationship between the countries. (references) |
Niger | In January 2000, Niger's newly elected government inherited serious financial and economic problems including a virtually empty treasury, past-due salaries (11 months of arrears) and scholarship payments, increased debt, reduced revenue performance, and lower public investment. (references) | |
The Netherlands | A centuries-old tradition of legal scholarship has made the Netherlands the home of the International Court of Justice; the Iran Claims Tribunal; the Yugoslavia and Rwanda War Crime Tribunals; the European police organization, Europol; and the Organization for the Prevention of Chemical Weapons. (references) | |
Political Economy | Yemen | A new development program funded through Department of State Economic Support Funds (ESF) will begin in 2001 and will include a $2 million advanced degree scholarship program and a $2 million health/education program. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
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Bill Clinton | 1993-2001 | Now, like thousands of other members, she will use her scholarship from AmeriCorps to go to college to equip herself to compete and win in the new economy. |
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| "Scholarship" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 99.08% of the time. "Scholarship" is used about 866 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Noun (singular) | 99.08% | 858 | 8,237 |
| Noun (proper) | 0.46% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Noun (common) | 0.46% | 4 | 175,879 |
| Total | 100.00% | 866 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "scholarship": open scholarship ♦ pretender to scholarship ♦ scholarship holder. Additional references. | |
| Hyphenated Usage | |
Beginning with "scholarship": scholarship-girl. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
scholarship | 10,737 |
college scholarship | 1,719 |
nursing scholarship | 1,052 |
minority scholarship | 744 |
scholarship search | 607 |
scholarship grant | 585 |
hope scholarship | 438 |
free scholarship | 382 |
hispanic scholarship | 277 |
student scholarship | 190 |
graduate scholarship | 185 |
african american scholarship | 185 |
fulbright scholarship | 182 |
scholarship for woman | 164 |
bright future scholarship | 156 |
scholarship graduate school | 151 |
georgia hope scholarship | 151 |
scholarship essay | 145 |
canadian scholarship | 126 |
free college scholarship | 126 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "scholarship"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | dituri (erudition, knowing, knowledge, learning), bursë (exchange, exhibition, fellowship, grant, grants, stipend, stock exchange, stock market). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | منحة دراسية (stipend), معرفة (acquaintance, awareness, cognition, cognizance, conversance, education, erudition, familiarity, information, knowing, knowledge, learning, lore), علم (adudicate, advertise, advertize, advise, apprise, apprize, banner, bar, bunting, coach, cognizance, cognize, drill, educate, flag, indoctrinate, inform, instruct, know, knowledge, learning, let know, locate, mark, mark out, notify, post, profess, read, school, science, standard, teach, tell, tick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | стипендия (award, exhibition, studentship), начетеност (erudition, letters, reading), ерудиция (erudition, knowledge, learning, lore, reading). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 獎學金 , 才學 (talent and learning), 奖学金. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Czech | stipendium (award, bursary, grant), vìdecká erudice, uèenost (erudition, learning). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | studielegat (study bursary, study grant), stipendium (stipend, study bursary, study grant), legat (stipend, study bursary, study grant), friplads (study bursary, study grant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | studiebeurs (stipend, study bursary, study grant), toelage (allocation, allowance, bonus, grant, grant aid, grant-in-aid, study bursary, study grant, subsidie, subsidy), beurs (bursa, exchange, fair, purse, stipend, stock exchange, stock market, study bursary, study grant, wallet). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | فضل وکمال , کمک هزینه دانشجوءی , تحقیق (Inquiry, Probe, Quest, Research, Rummage, Scrutiny), دانش (Knowledge, Letter, Science, Wisdom, Witting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Finnish | stipendi (bursary, grant, student award), oppineisuus (erudition, learning), opillinen sivistys (book-knowledge, education), apuraha (grant, subsidy). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | savoir (science), bourse d'étude, bourse, érudition. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | Stipendium (bursary, exhibition, grant, stipend, study bursary, study grant), gelehrsamkeit (eruditeness, erudition, learning, punditry, scholarliness, studiousness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | υποτροφία (fellow ship, grant, scolarship, study bursary, study grant). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מל'" (stipend), מע ק למו"ים (bursary), למ" ות (erudition, learning), סטיפ "י" (grant, stipend). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | ösztöndíj (fellowship, fellowship prize, scholarship prize, studentship). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Indonesian | beasiswa, bea siswa. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | borsa di studio (bursary, exhibition, grant, study bursary, study grant), erudizione (erudition, learning, scholarliness). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Kanji | 奨学金 . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Japanese Katakana | ぞうけい (attainments, deep knowledge, modelling, molding), がくしょく (knowledge, learning), がくしき (scientific attainments), がくりょく (knowledge, literary ability), がくも" (learning, study), がくじゅつ (learning, science), がく (amount or sum, erudition, knowledge, learning, picture), きゅうひ (compost, manure, provision of expenses), しょうがくき", スカラシップ . (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 장학금. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | ynseydaght, schoillarys, schoillaraght (scholasticism). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Maori | karahipi. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | olarshipschay saber (guide mark, have, instruction, know, know how, knowledge is power, learning, lore, savvy, science, to know), sabedoria (erudition, knowledge, sapience, wisdom), ilustração (cut, figure, illustration, picture), cultura (accomplishments, breeding, civilization, crop, crop growing, cultivation, culture, erupt, farming, gerontology, growing, growth, management, niceness, seeding, sowing), conhecimento (acquaintance, attainment, awareness, background, bill of lading, cognition, cognizance, command, conscious, consciousness, conversance, familiarization, friend, idea, information, insight, instructional, intelligence department, know, knowing, knowledge, learning, light, lore, manifest, perception, privity, science), bolsa de mobilidad (study bursary, study grant), bolsa de estudos (study bursary, study grant), bolsa de estudo (studentship). (various references) erudiţie (erudition, great stores of knowledge, knowledge), bursã (bursary, exchange, grant, security market, stipend, the house), ştiinţã de carte (literacy), învãţãturã (advice, apprenticeship, article, culture, doctrine, education, instruction, learning, lesson, lore, message, moral, precept, studies, study, teaching). (various references) ученость (erudition). (various references) stipendija (fellowship, grant, studentship), učenost (literature). (various references) beca (bursary, grant, stipend, student grant, studentship). (various references) stipendium (award, exhibition), lärdom (erudition, knowledge, learning, moral). (various references) ทุนรัฐบาล (government scholarship). (various references) burs (bursary, exhibition, grant, studentship), bilim (knowledge, learning, science), bilginlik (erudition), öğrenim (education, instruction, study). (various references) стипендія (bursary, burse, stipend, studentship), ученість (erudition, learning, lore, wisdom), гуманітарна освіта. (various references) sự uyên thâm, sự uyên bác (polymathy), sự thông thái học bổng, sự học rộng. (various references) ysgoloriaeth, ysgolheictod. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Sumerian | 3100 BCE-2500 BCE | umun. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "scholarship": scholarships. (additional references) | |
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"Scholarship" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: scholarsh, scholership, schollarship, scholorship, schoolarship, scolarship. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "scholarship" (pronounced skÄ"lershi'p) |
| 5 | -l er sh i' p | dealership. |
| 4 | -er sh i' p | ambassadorship, authorship, censorship, conservatorship, dictatorship, directorship, distributorship, editorship, governorship, leadership, membership, ownership, partnership, professorship, proprietorship, readership, receivership, ridership, speakership, sponsorship, viewership. |
| 3 | -sh i' p | airship, apprenticeship, battleship, bipartisanship, brinkmanship, brinksmanship, chairmanship, championship, citizenship, companionship, consulship, craftsmanship, draftsmanship, entrepreneurship, fellowship, flagship, friendship, gamesmanship, generalship, guardianship, gunship, hardship, headship, horsemanship, internship, interrelationship, judgeship, kingship, kinship, Lightship, marksmanship, musicianship, partisanship, premiership, relationship, salesmanship, showmanship, spaceship, sportsmanship, starship, statesmanship, steamship, stewardship, township, trusteeship, upmanship, warship, workmanship. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-h-h-i-l-o-p-r-s-s" | |
-3 letters: alphosis, haplosis, isopachs, orphical, scholars, shophars. | |
-4 letters: archils, caliphs, carhops, carlish, chorals, chorial, coprahs, crissal, isopach, orchils, picaros, prosaic, raspish, rhachis, sailors, scarphs, scholar, scholia, schorls, shophar, socials, spirals. | |
-5 letters: across, archil, aspics, aspish, assoil, caliph, capris, carhop, caroli, carols, chairs, chiral, chiros, chirps, choirs, choral, claros, clasps, copals, coprah, copras, corals, crasis, crisps, crissa, horahs, ichors, laichs, lochia, lorica, orchil, orchis, orphic, palish, parish, parols, pharos, phasic, phasis, phials, picaro, piscos, poisha, polars, polish, rachis, ralphs, raphis, sailor, sapors, scalps, scarph, scarps, schorl, scoria, scraps, scrips, sharps, shoals, shorls, social, spahis, spails, spicas, spiral, splash, splosh, spoils, sporal. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-h-h-i-l-o-p-r-s-s" | |
+1 letter: scholarships. | |
+4 letters: chancellorships. | |
+5 letters: psychohistorical. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)53 63 68 6F 6C 61 72 73 68 69 70 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)... -.-. .... --- .-.. .- .-. ... .... .. .--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110010 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110000 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)S c h o l a r s h i p |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0053 0063 0068 006F 006C 0061 0072 0073 0068 0069 0070 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5369748178678485747582 |
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