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单词 scholarship
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scholarship

noun

schol·​ar·​ship ˈskä-lər-ˌship How to pronounce scholarship (audio)
1
: a grant-in-aid to a student (as by a college or foundation)
2
: the character, qualities, activity, or attainments of a scholar : learning
3
: a fund of knowledge and learning
drawing on the scholarship of the ancients

Synonyms

  • education
  • erudition
  • knowledge
  • learnedness
  • learning
  • literacy
See all Synonyms & Antonyms

Example Sentences

She got a scholarship to Yale University. The organization is offering five $5,000 scholarships. The essay is a work of serious scholarship. The book is about his life and scholarship.
Recent Examples on the Web Proceeds will go toward the scholarship programs at the James Beard Foundation. Anna Mazurek, Chron, 12 Sep. 2022 Caruso linked the scholarship to systemic graft plaguing City Hall and pushed for his opponent to release her communications with Flynn. Matt Hamilton, Los Angeles Times, 11 Sep. 2022 The former Buckeye walk-on turned scholarship safety and member of the 2002 national championship team is the great-great nephew of OSU legend Chic Harley. Nathan Baird, cleveland, 10 Sep. 2022 Grier, who joined the Boston University Terriers in the fall of 1993 on a half-scholarship offered by coach Jack Parker, only some 36 months later made the Oilers directly out of his first rookie camp. Kevin Paul Dupont, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Sep. 2022 The Hoosiers used four of their 20 scholarship true freshmen against Illinois, two from each side of the ball. Dustin Dopirak, The Indianapolis Star, 9 Sep. 2022 UConn men’s basketball signed Apostolos Roumoglou out of Greece to the 13th scholarship spot on the roster, the team announced Friday. Joe Arruda, Hartford Courant, 9 Sep. 2022 Indeed, historians do not produce scholarship in isolation. Keisha N. Blain, The New Republic, 9 Sep. 2022 By the five-game spring 2021 high school season, his best offers from scholarship programs were invites as a preferred walk-on. Don Norcross, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Sep. 2022 See More

Word History

First Known Use

circa 1536, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Kids Definition

scholarship

noun

schol·​ar·​ship ˈskä-lər-ˌship How to pronounce scholarship (audio)
1
: money given a student to help pay for further education
2
: serious academic study or research of a subject

scholarship

noun

as in literacy
the understanding and information gained from being educated the historian's new book displays a remarkable level of scholarship

Synonyms & Similar Words

Relevance
  • literacy
  • education
  • knowledge
  • erudition
  • learning
  • enlightenment
  • learnedness
  • culture
  • edification
  • reading
  • pedantry
  • bookishness

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

  • ignorance
  • illiteracy
  • illiterateness
  • functional illiteracy

Synonym Chooser

Some common synonyms of scholarship are erudition, knowledge, and learning. While all these words mean "what is or can be known by an individual or by humankind," scholarship implies the possession of learning characteristic of the advanced scholar in a specialized field of study or investigation.

a work of first-rate literary scholarship

The synonyms erudition and scholarship are sometimes interchangeable, but erudition strongly implies the acquiring of profound, recondite, or bookish learning.

an erudition unusual even in a scholar

Although the words knowledge and scholarship have much in common, knowledge applies to facts or ideas acquired by study, investigation, observation, or experience.

rich in the knowledge of human nature

The words learning and scholarship are synonyms, but do differ in nuance. Specifically, learning applies to knowledge acquired especially through formal, often advanced, schooling.

a book that demonstrates vast learning
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