Scholarship

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Scholarship \Schol"ar*ship\, n.
     1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in
        science or literature; erudition; learning.
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              A man of my master's . . . great scholarship.


                                                    --Pope.
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     2. Literary education. [R.]
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              Any other house of scholarship.       --Milton.
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     3. Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of
        a student. --T. Warton.
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     Syn: Learning; erudition; knowledge.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  scholarship
       n 1: financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic
            merit
       2: profound scholarly knowledge [syn: {eruditeness}, {erudition},
           {learnedness}, {learning}, {encyclopedism}, {encyclopaedism}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  72 Moby Thesaurus words for "scholarship":
     aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, award,
     bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning,
     book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, bounty, bursary,
     classical scholarship, classicism, culture, depletion allowance,
     diligence, dole, donnishness, education, endowment, eruditeness,
     erudition, exhibition, fellowship, financial assistance, grant,
     grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, help, humanism,
     humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, know-how,
     knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy, lore,
     old-age insurance, pecuniary aid, pedantism, pedantry, pension,
     preparation, price support, public assistance, public welfare,
     reading, relief, retirement benefits, scholarliness, schooling,
     science, stipend, studiousness, subsidization, subsidy, subvention,
     support, tax benefit, training, welfare, welfare aid,
     welfare payments