Definition of "scholarship"

scholarship

/ˈskɒləʃɪp/

noun
countable and uncountable, plural scholarships
1. A grant-in-aid to a student.
2. The character or qualities of a scholar.
3. The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
4. (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
5. (Australia, dated) The first year of high school, often accompanied by exams that needed to be passed before advancement to the higher grades.
verb
third-person singular simple present scholarships, present participle scholarshiping or scholarshipping, simple past and past participle scholarshiped or scholarshipped
1. (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.
  Quotations
  Up from the tenements of the Lower East Side, he had scholarshiped at Cornell and Harvard Law.
  2012, Joseph Miller, The Wicked Wine of Democracy‎, page 205
2. (transitive) To grant a scholarship to.
  Quotations
  In the first year, twenty children were scholarshiped to attend the Kids Across America Kamp in Branson, Missouri.
  2006, Lloyd Reeb, Unlimited Partnership‎, page 138
  Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.
  2012, Bernard W. Taylor, Introduction to Management Science:‎, page 632