scholarship

Speech parts

1. scholarship - Noun

2. scholarship - Verb

Meaning

The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning.

Literary education.

Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

learning grant erudition stipend bursary award knowledge endowment fellowship allowance subsidy encyclopedism learnedness eruditeness encyclopaedism
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Antonyms

loss inability retrieve ignorance misunderstanding misconception
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Hypernyms

award education aid assistance prize financial aid

Hyponyms

letters

Phrases with the word

journal of scholarship evaluation of a scholarship written evaluation of a scholarship humanistic scholarship merit-based scholarship rabbinic scholarship

Examples

Originality is the essence of true scholarship. Creativity is the soul of the true scholar. Nnamdi Azikiwe

The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship. Robert A. Heinlein

The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. Camille Paglia

Genitals are a great distraction to scholarship. Malcolm Bradbury

My own ideals for the university are those of a genuine democracy and serious scholarship. These two, indeed, seem to go together. Woodrow Wilson

I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic. Victoria Jackson

Close letter words and terms

scholarly text scholarly work scholarly world scholarship holder scholastic scholastic establishment