单词 | fulbright |
释义 | Fulbrightn. I. Compounds 1. attributive. Designating a U.S. government educational program providing grants for research, study, and teaching by U.S. citizens in various foreign countries (and by citizens of those countries in the United States), established in 1946 under legislation introduced by Senator J. William Fulbright of Arkansas; designating a grant or position awarded as part of the Fulbright program, as Fulbright grant, Fulbright scholarship, etc.; designating a person holding a grant or position awarded by the Fulbright program, as Fulbright professor, Fulbright scholar, etc. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > [adjective] > scholarships Fulbright1945 1945 N.Y. Times 20 Dec. 21/7 The Fulbright program also was endorsed by a joint meeting of the Liaison Committee for International Education and the Committee on International Education and Cultural Relations of the American Council on Education. 1947 N.Y. Times 21 Nov. 30/5 Those abroad are eligible for Fulbright grants, VA rules. 1951 Times Educ. Suppl. 23 Mar. 229/2 23 visiting American lecturers and 20 research scholars are..here with Fulbright awards. 1953 French Rev. 26 448 Major General Hershey..issued a directive to local draft boards recommending that only Fulbright students and Rhodes scholars be given deferment for foreign study. 1957 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Nov. 680/1 Professor Jayne's year of research in England, supported by Fulbright and Guggenheim funds. 1959 Times Lit. Suppl. 6 Nov. 647/1 A Fulbright scholar. 1965 Jet 15 July 22 Her brilliant record earned her a Fulbright Scholarship for study at the University of Grenoble in France. 1979 Princeton Alumni Weekly 10 Sept. 39 Art Groos writes to say he'll be spending the coming year in Munich on Guggenheim and Fulbright grants. 1983 J. Epstein in Commentary Jan. 56/1 Updike was a Fulbright Fellow in Africa, and it must have seemed a shame to him not to attempt to turn the experience into literature. 1990 R. Critchfield Among British iv. 255 Sir Antony said he used to go to hear the visiting Fulbright professors. 1995 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 24 Sept. vii. 28/2 Wide-eyed, hungry for impression and sensation and handsomely cushioned by a Fulbright fellowship. 2004 A. S. Ilchman et al. in A. S. Ilchman et al. Lucky Few & Worthy Many i. 9 When the Fulbright program was founded in 1946, Senator Fulbright claimed lineage from his Rhodes experience. 2008 S. J. Zepeda Tales from Teacher's Heart p. vii Oksana is a former Canada World Youth participant and a Fulbright student. II. Simple uses 2. A Fulbright scholarship or grant; a term of study or academic employment financed by a Fulbright grant. ΘΚΠ society > education > educational administration > [noun] > scholarships scholarship1535 demyship1536 burse1560 exhibition1631 travelling fellowship1694 bursary1733 travelling scholarship1798 studentship1802 Newcastle1832 pupilship1838 Newcastle1845 state scholarship1849 Ireland1861 bursarship1864 schol1888 freeship1893 Rhodes scholarship1902 Fulbright1952 schoolmaster studentship1957 assisted place1977 Rhodes1994 1952 Life 15 Sept. 97/1 Rhoden went to Italy in 1951 on a Fulbright. 1952 M. McCarthy Groves of Academe x. 219 Poncy copped a Fulbright to lecture on Amiel in Lebanon. 1991 S. Cisneros Woman Hollering Creek 139 A Fulbright whisked them to Nayarit for a year. 1993 R. J. Waller Slow Waltz in Cedar Bend i. 2 Just back from India after his second Fulbright there and still jet-lagged, Michael slouched against the dean's refrigerator. 2011 R. Ricker Lessons from Street-wise Professor vii. 76 The three awards together gave her much more money than a Fulbright, and she was able to stay in Paris for two years. 3. A holder of a Fulbright grant; a Fulbright scholar. ΚΠ 1954 Pan Pipes of Sigma Alpha Iota Mar. 20/1 All Fulbrights here..spent three glorious weeks on the Rhein for our orientation period. 1959 Encounter Oct. 38/2 Their numbers included some stranded Fulbrights, a Mexican pundit, a Lapp,..and several classless stateless Australians. 1971 M. McCarthy Birds of Amer. 95 He had been expecting to meet some fellow-students in the tourist class, but there were only a few married Fulbrights with babies. 2012 S. Kahn & M. MacGarvie in J. Lerner & S. Stern Rate & Direct. of Inventive Activity Revisited ii. iii. 172 It is possible that our sample differs in important respects from the population of Fulbrights or foreign students in general. Derivatives ˈFulbrighter n. colloquial A holder of a Fulbright grant; a Fulbright scholar. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > student with scholarship scholar1593 exhibitioner1679 Rhodes scholar1902 Rhodesian1905 Fulbrighter1953 Rhodes1995 schoolmaster student1997 1953 Harper's Mag. Oct. 77/2 As someone put it, ‘Scratch a cultural activity, and find a Fulbrighter.’ 1987 A. P. Dudden & R. R. Dynes Fulbright Experience, 1946–1986 7 A large roomful of Fulbrighters eagerly exchanging their experience with each other. 2011 A. Wilson & J. Wilson Voices from Peace Corps xi. 293 In 2006 [he] was a teaching and research Fulbrighter in Cameroon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1945 |
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