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Scholarship

Definitions: Scholarship

Scholarship

Noun

1. 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)



Specialty Definitions: Scholarship

DomainDefinitions

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.

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Synonyms: Scholarship

Synonyms: eruditeness (n), erudition (n), learnedness (n), learning (n). (additional references)

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Synonyms within Context: Scholarship

ContextSynonyms 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.

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Crosswords: Scholarship

English words defined with "scholarship": Clerkliness, commonsense, commonsensible, commonsensicalmeanspiritedphilologist, philologuereport, report cardscholar, Scholarity, scholarly, see through, supportungenerousWooden spoon. (references)
Specialty definitions using "scholarship": Coalition for Networked Informationdirector of financial aid and placements, director of student aid, Doctor Syntax, Dutch Education Learning at Top-level AbroadFINANCIAL-AIDS OFFICER, FOREIGN-STUDENT ADVISERLeveraging Educational Assistance Partnership Programobert C. Byrd Honors ScholarshipUniversity of Durhamvisiting-student counselor. (references)

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Modern Usage: Scholarship

DomainUsage

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)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Scholarship

DomainTitle

Books

  • Scholarship Reconsidered: Priorities of the Professoriate (reference)

    (more book examples)

  

Periodicals

  

Theater & Movies

  • Buddy Rich Memorial Scholarship Concert, Vol. 1 (reference)

    (more DVD examples; more video examples)

  

Music

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Image Slideshow: Scholarship

Illustrations:
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Photo Album: Scholarship

ThumbnailDescription & 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).

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Familiar Quotations: Scholarship

AuthorQuotation

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.

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Non-Fiction Usage: Scholarship

SubjectTopicQuote

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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Speeches: Scholarship

SpeakerTermPhrase(s)

Bill Clinton

1993-2001Now, 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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Scholarship

"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 SpeechPercentUsage per
100 Million Words
Rank in English
Noun (singular)99.08%8588,237
Noun (proper)0.46%4175,879
Noun (common)0.46%4175,879
                    Total100.00%866N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expressions: Scholarship

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.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Scholarship

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.
 
ExpressionFrequency
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.

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Modern Translations: Scholarship

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

   

Portuguese

  

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)

   

Romanian

  

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)

   

Russian 

  

ученость (erudition). (various references)

   

Serbo-Croatian

  

stipendija (fellowship, grant, studentship), učenost (literature). (various references)

   

Spanish

  

beca (bursary, grant, stipend, student grant, studentship). (various references)

   

Swedish

  

stipendium (award, exhibition), lärdom (erudition, knowledge, learning, moral). (various references)

   

Thai

  

ทุนรัฐบาล (government scholarship). (various references)

   

Turkish

  

burs (bursary, exhibition, grant, studentship), bilim (knowledge, learning, science), bilginlik (erudition), öğrenim (education, instruction, study). (various references)

   

Ukranian 

  

стипендія (bursary, burse, stipend, studentship), ученість (erudition, learning, lore, wisdom), гуманітарна освіта. (various references)

   

Vietnamese 

  

sự uyên thâm, sự uyên bác (polymathy), sự thông thái học bổng, sự học rộng. (various references)

   

Welsh

  

ysgoloriaeth, ysgolheictod. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Ancestral Language Translations: Scholarship

LanguagePeriodTranslations
Sumerian3100 BCE-2500 BCE

umun. (various references)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Derivations & Misspellings: Scholarship

Derivations

Words beginning with "scholarship": scholarships. (additional references)


Misspellings

"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).

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Rhyming with "Scholarship"

# of Phoneme MatchesPronunciationWord(s) rhyming with "scholarship" (pronounced skÄ"lershi'p)
5-l er sh i' pdealership.
4-er sh i' pambassadorship, authorship, censorship, conservatorship, dictatorship, directorship, distributorship, editorship, governorship, leadership, membership, ownership, partnership, professorship, proprietorship, readership, receivership, ridership, speakership, sponsorship, viewership.
3-sh i' pairship, 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.

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Anagrams: Scholarship

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.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Alternative Orthography: Scholarship


Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)

53 63 68 6F 6C 61 72 73 68 69 70

Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)

American Sign Language (origins from 1620-1817 in Italy and, especially, France) (references)

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Semaphore (1791, in France) (references)

Braille (1829, in France) (references)

Morse Code (1836) (references)

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Dancing Men (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, 1903) (references)

Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)

01010011 01100011 01101000 01101111 01101100 01100001 01110010 01110011 01101000 01101001 01110000

HTML Code (1990) (references)

&#83 &#99 &#104 &#111 &#108 &#97 &#114 &#115 &#104 &#105 &#112

ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)

0053 0063 0068 006F 006C 0061 0072 0073 0068 0069 0070

British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)

Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)

5369748178678485747582

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INDEX

1. Definition
2. Synonyms
3. Crosswords
4. Usage: Modern
5. Usage: Commercial
6. Images: Slideshow
7. Images: Photo Album
8. Quotations: Familiar
9. Quotations: Non-fiction
10. Quotations: Speeches
11. Usage Frequency
12. Expressions
13. Expressions: Internet
14. Translations: Modern
15. Translations: Ancient
16. Derivations
17. Rhymes
18. Anagrams
19. Orthography
20. Bibliography


  

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