Standard Lemma guide

scholarship

noun · verb · 9 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

Sound

Pronunciation

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  • UK: /ˈskɒləʃɪp/
  • US: /ˈskɑːləɹʃɪp/
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: S K AA1 L ER0 SH IH2 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

noun

Meaning 1

A grant-in-aid to a student.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary, fellowship

Antonyms: none provided

2

noun

Meaning 2

The character or qualities of a scholar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: countable, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: scholarly method

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: learning, erudition, education, knowledge

Antonyms: none provided

5

noun

Meaning 5

The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, countable, dated, uncountable

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

6

verb

Meaning 6

To attend an institution on a scholarship.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

verb

Meaning 7

To grant a scholarship to.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

8

noun

Meaning 8

profound scholarly knowledge

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, encyclopedism, encyclopaedism

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: education

Narrower terms: letters

9

noun

Meaning 9

financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: aid, economic aid, financial aid, prize, award

History

Etymology

Etymology tree English scholar Proto-Germanic *skapjaną Proto-Germanic *-skapiz Proto-West Germanic *-skapi Old English -sċiepe Middle English -schipe English -ship English scholarship From scholar + -ship.

Across languages

Translations

132 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Albanian: bursë — study allowance
  • Arabic: مِنْحَة دِرَاسِيَّة (minḥa dirāsiyya) — study allowance
  • Arabic: إِعَانَة دِرَاسِيَّة (ʔiʕāna dirāsiyya) — study allowance
  • Armenian: կրթաթոշակ (krtʻatʻošak) — study allowance
  • Azerbaijani: təqaüd — study allowance
  • Azerbaijani: stipendiya — study allowance
  • Azerbaijani: təhsil təqaüdü — study allowance
  • Belarusian: стыпе́ндыя (stypjéndyja) — study allowance
  • Belarusian: стыпэ́ндыя (stypéndyja) — study allowance
  • Bengali: শিক্ষাবৃত্তি (śikkhabritti) — study allowance
  • Bulgarian: стипе́ндия (stipéndija) — study allowance
  • Burmese: ပညာသင်ဆု (pa.nyasanghcu.) — study allowance
  • Catalan: beca — study allowance
  • Chinese Mandarin: 獎學金 /奖学金 (jiǎngxuéjīn) — study allowance
  • Czech: stipendium — study allowance
  • Danish: stipendium — study allowance
  • Dutch: studiebeurs — study allowance
  • Dutch: stipendium — study allowance
  • Dutch: beurs — study allowance
  • Esperanto: stipendio — study allowance
  • Estonian: stipendium — study allowance
  • Finnish: apuraha — study allowance
  • Finnish: stipendi — study allowance
  • French: bourse — study allowance
  • French: bourse d'études — study allowance
  • Georgian: სტიპენდია (sṭiṗendia) — study allowance
  • Georgian: გრანტი (granṭi) — study allowance
  • German: Stipendium — study allowance
  • Greek: υποτροφία (ypotrofía) — study allowance
  • Hebrew: מִלְגָּה (milgá) — study allowance
  • Hindi: छात्रवृत्ति (chātravŕtti) — study allowance
  • Hindi: स्कालरशिप (skālarśip) — study allowance
  • Hungarian: ösztöndíj — study allowance
  • Icelandic: námsstyrkur — study allowance
  • Ido: stipendio — study allowance
  • Indonesian: beasiswa — study allowance
  • Indonesian: dana siswa — study allowance
  • Irish: scoláireacht — study allowance
  • Italian: borsa di studio — study allowance
  • Japanese: 奨学金 (shōgakukin) — study allowance
  • Kalmyk: оютни цальң (oyutni tsalʹñ) — study allowance
  • Kazakh: стипендия (stipendiä) — study allowance
  • Kazakh: шәкіртақы (şäkırtaqy) — study allowance
  • Khmer: អាហារូបករណ៍ (ʼaahaaruupaʼkɑɑ) — study allowance
  • Korean: 장학금 (janghakgeum) — study allowance
  • Northern Kurdish: stîpend — study allowance
  • Kyrgyz: стипендия (stipendiya) — study allowance
  • Lao: ທຶນການສຶກສາ (thưn kān sưk sā) — study allowance
  • Latvian: stipendija — study allowance
  • Lithuanian: stipendija — study allowance
  • Macedonian: стипендија (stipendija) — study allowance
  • Malay: biasiswa — study allowance
  • Māori: karahipi — study allowance
  • Mongolian: тэтгэлэг (tetgeleg) — study allowance
  • Mongolian: ᠲᠡᠳᠬᠦᠯᠭᠡ (tedkülge) — study allowance
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stipend — study allowance
  • Norwegian Bokmål: stipendium — study allowance
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: stipend — study allowance
  • Pashto: سکالرشپ (skālaršip) — study allowance
  • Persian: بورسیه (bursiye) — study allowance
  • Persian: کمکهزینه (komak-hazine) — study allowance
  • Persian: بورس تحصیلی (burs-e tahsili) — study allowance
  • Plautdietsch: Scheelaloon — study allowance
  • Polish: stypendium — study allowance
  • Portuguese: bolsa de estudos — study allowance
  • Romanian: bursă — study allowance
  • Russian: стипе́ндия (stipéndija) — study allowance
  • Serbo-Croatian: стипѐндија — study allowance
  • Serbo-Croatian: stipèndija — study allowance
  • Slovak: štipendium — study allowance
  • Slovene: štipendija — study allowance
  • Spanish: beca — study allowance
  • Swedish: stipendium — study allowance
  • Tagalog: paaral — study allowance
  • Tajik: стипендия (stipendiya) — study allowance
  • Thai: ทุนการศึกษา (tun-gaan-sʉ̀k-sǎa) — study allowance
  • Tibetan: སློབ་ཡོན — study allowance
  • Tibetan: གཟེངས་ཐོན་སློབ་ཡོན (gzengs thon slob yon) — study allowance
  • Turkish: burs — study allowance
  • Turkish: öğrenimlik — study allowance
  • Turkmen: stipendiýa — study allowance
  • Ukrainian: стипе́ндія (stypéndija) — study allowance
  • Urdu: اِسْکالَر شِپ (eskālar-śip) — study allowance
  • Uyghur: ستېپېندىيە (stëpëndiye) — study allowance
  • Uyghur: ستىپېندىيە (stipëndiye) — study allowance
  • Uzbek: stipendiya — study allowance
  • Vietnamese: học bổng — study allowance
  • Welsh: ysgoloriaeth — study allowance
  • French: érudition — character or qualities of a scholar
  • German: Gelehrsamkeit — character or qualities of a scholar
  • German: Gelehrtheit — character or qualities of a scholar
  • Tibetan: མཁས་པ (mkhas pa) — character or qualities of a scholar
  • Tibetan: མཁས་པ་ཉིད (mkhas pa nyid) — character or qualities of a scholar
  • Bengali: এলেম (elem) — knowledge
  • Bulgarian: наче́теност (načétenost) — knowledge
  • Bulgarian: еруди́ция (erudícija) — knowledge
  • Chinese Mandarin: 學問 /学问 (xuéwen) — knowledge
  • Dutch: wetenschap — knowledge
  • Dutch: kennis — knowledge
  • Finnish: tietämys — knowledge
  • Finnish: tiedot — knowledge
  • French: érudition — knowledge
  • German: Gelehrtheit — knowledge
  • German: Erudiertheit — knowledge
  • Greek: ευρυμάθεια (evrymátheia) — knowledge
  • Greek: λογιότητα (logiótita) — knowledge
  • Ido: stipendio — knowledge
  • Ido: erud-it-eso — knowledge
  • Irish: scoláireacht — knowledge
  • Japanese: 教養 (kyōyō) — knowledge
  • Japanese: 学識 (gakushiki) — knowledge
  • Korean: 교양 (gyoyang) — knowledge
  • Korean: 학식 (haksik) — knowledge
  • Malayalam: പാണ്ഡിത്യം (pāṇḍityaṁ) — knowledge
  • Polish: nauka — knowledge
  • Portuguese: sabedoria — knowledge
  • Romanian: erudiție — knowledge
  • Russian: эруди́ция (erudícija) — knowledge
  • Russian: учёность (učónostʹ) — knowledge
  • Russian: зна́ния (znánija) — knowledge
  • Russian: начита́нность (načitánnostʹ) — knowledge
  • Spanish: erudición — knowledge
  • Spanish: sabiduría — knowledge
  • Tagalog: pagkapalaaral — knowledge
  • Telugu: పాండిత్యము (pāṇḍityamu) — knowledge
  • Tibetan: མཁས་པ (mkhas pa) — knowledge
  • Tibetan: མཁས་པ་ཉིད (mkhas pa nyid) — knowledge
  • Tibetan: ཤེས་ཡོན — knowledge
  • Tibetan: ཤེས་བྱ — knowledge
  • Tibetan: ཤེས་རྒྱུ — knowledge
  • Vietnamese: học thuật — knowledge
  • Vietnamese: học vấn — knowledge
Real reading context

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