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schol·ar·ship

(skŏl′ər-shĭp′)

1. The methods, discipline, and attainments of a scholar or scholars.

2. Knowledge resulting from study and research in a particular field. See Synonyms at knowledge.

3. A grant of financial aid awarded to a student, as for the purpose of attending a college.

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scholarship

(ˈskɒləʃɪp)

1. academic achievement; erudition; learning

2. (Education)

a. financial aid provided for a scholar because of academic merit

b. the position of a student who gains this financial aid

c. (as modifier): a scholarship student.

3. the qualities of a scholar

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schol•ar•ship

(ˈskɒl ərˌʃɪp)

n.

1. the qualities, skills, or attainments of a scholar.

2. a gift of money or other aid to enable a student to pursue his or her studies.

3. the accumulated knowledge of a group of scholars.

[1525–35]

syn: See learning.

scholarship

Knowledge and learning, or a financial award made to a student to help fund attendance at a school, college, or university.

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Noun	1.	scholarship - financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit economic aid, financial aid, aid - money to support a worthy person or cause prize, award - something given for victory or superiority in a contest or competition or for winning a lottery; "the prize was a free trip to Europe"
	2.	scholarship - profound scholarly knowledge encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning education - knowledge acquired by learning and instruction; "it was clear that he had a very broad education" letters - scholarly attainment; "he is a man of letters"

scholarship

noun

1. grant, award, payment, exhibition, endowment, fellowship, bursary scholarships for women over 30

2. learning, education, culture, knowledge, wisdom, accomplishments, attainments, lore, erudition, academic study, book-learning I want to take advantage of your lifetime of scholarship.

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scholarship

noun

Known facts, ideas, and skill that have been imparted:

education, erudition, instruction, knowledge, learning, science.

Translations

عِلْم، مَعْرِفَهمِنْحَةٌ دِرَاسِيَّةمِنحَةٌ مالِيَّه

stipendiumučenostvzdělání

stipendiumlærdom

Gelehrsamkeit Stipendium

υποτροφία

beca erudición

oppineisuus

bourse érudition

stipendija

fræîimennska, lærdómurnámsstyrkur

borsa di studio erudizione

学問

장학금

studiebeurs

stipend stor kunnskap

stypendium

bolsa bolsa de estudo

ученость

vzdelanosť

štipendija

stipendium

ทุนเล่าเรียน

burs bilim

học bổng

奖学金学识

scholarship

[ˈskɒləʃɪp]

A. N

1. (= learning) → erudición f

2. (= money award) → beca f

B. CPD scholarship holder N → becario/a m/f

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scholarship

[ˈskɒlə^rʃɪp]

(= grant) → bourse f (d'études)

(= learning) → érudition f

modif [fund] → de bourses
scholarship holder → détenteur/trice m/f d'une bourse, boursier/ière m/f
a scholarship student → un(e) étudiant(e) m/f boursier/ière, un(e) boursier/ière m/f

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scholarship

(= learning) → Gelehrsamkeit f; scholarship flourished during the Renaissance → die Gelehrsamkeit entfaltete sich in der Renaissance zur vollen Blüte

(= money award) → Stipendium nt; to win a scholarship to Cambridge → ein Stipendium für Cambridge bekommen; on a scholarship → mit einem Stipendium; scholarship holder → Stipendiat(in) m(f)

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scholarship

[ˈskɒləʃɪp] n

a. (learning) → erudizione f, cultura

b. (award, grant) → borsa di studio
to win a scholarship → vincere una borsa di studio

scholar

(ˈskolə) noun

1. a person of great knowledge and learning. a fine classical scholar.

2. a person who has been awarded a scholarship. As a scholar, you will not have to pay college fees.

ˈscholarly adjective

having or showing knowledge. a scholarly person; a scholarly book.

ˈscholarliness noun

ˈscholarship noun

1. knowledge and learning. a man of great scholarship.

2. money awarded to a good student to enable him to go on with further studies. She was awarded a travel scholarship.

scholarship

→ مِنْحَةٌ دِرَاسِيَّة stipendium stipendium Gelehrsamkeit υποτροφία beca oppineisuus bourse stipendija borsa di studio 学問 장학금 studiebeurs stipend stypendium bolsa, bolsa de estudo ученость stipendium ทุนเล่าเรียน burs học bổng 奖学金

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An Avery scholarship! Anne felt her heart beat more quickly, and the horizons of her ambition shifted and broadened as if by magic.

"I'll win that scholarship if hard work can do it," she resolved.

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She studied hard, for she had made up her mind to win the Thorburn Scholarship in English.

Gilbert, too, was in full chase after a scholarship, but found plenty of time for frequent calls at Thirty-eight, St.

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Watson expected him to leave the preparatory school with a scholarship.

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Although I admired scholarship so much in Cleric, I was not deceived about myself; I knew that I should never be a scholar.

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And they sent me to Amsterdam to try for a scholarship, and I won it.

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It wasn't a matter of scholarship. I stood well in my classes, and did he graduate me into the university he was confident that in that institution I would continue to stand well.

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Holmes, that to-morrow is the first day of the examination for the Fortescue Scholarship. I am one of the examiners.

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He carried his scholarship, however, to the point of pedantry, not only in the illustrative extracts from Latin authors with which in the printed edition he filled the lower half of his pages, but in the plays themselves in the scrupulous exactitude of his rendering of the details of Roman life.

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One half of it was to go to the founding of a "Lecompte Scholarship" for poor students in the University of Geneva.

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Beginning with an elaborate notice of Chaucer, full of the minute scholarship of our day, he never forgets that his subject is, after all, poetry.