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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

SCHOL'ARSHIP, n.
1. Learning; attainments in science or literature; as a man of great scholarship.
2. Literary education; as any other house of scholarship. [Unusual.]
3. Exhibition or maintenance for a scholar; foundation for the support of a student.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit
2: profound scholarly knowledge [syn: eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning, scholarship, encyclopedism, encyclopaedism]

Merriam Webster's

noun Date: circa 1536 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: see knowledge

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. 1 a academic achievement; learning of a high level. b the methods and standards characteristic of a good scholar (shows great scholarship). 2 payment from the funds of a school, university, local government, etc., to maintain a student in full-time education, awarded on the basis of scholarly achievement.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Scholarship Schol"ar*ship, n. 1. The character and qualities of a scholar; attainments in science or literature; erudition; learning. A man of my master's . . . great scholarship. --Pope. 2. Literary education. [R.] Any other house of scholarship. --Milton. 3. Maintenance for a scholar; a foundation for the support of a student. --T. Warton. Syn: Learning; erudition; knowledge.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(scholarships) 1. If you get a scholarship to a school or university, your studies are paid for by the school or university or by some other organization. He got a scholarship to the Pratt Institute of Art. N-COUNT 2. Scholarship is serious academic study and the knowledge that is obtained from it. I want to take advantage of your lifetime of scholarship.

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

n. 1. Learning, erudition, knowledge, attainments, acquirements, accomplishments, acquired knowedge. 2. Education, teaching. 3. Maintenance for a student, foundation for support.

Moby Thesaurus

aid, alimony, allotment, allowance, annuity, assistance, award, bibliolatry, bibliomania, bluestockingism, book learning, book madness, bookiness, bookishness, booklore, bounty, bursary, classical scholarship, classicism, culture, depletion allowance, diligence, dole, donnishness, education, endowment, eruditeness, erudition, exhibition, fellowship, financial assistance, grant, grant-in-aid, guaranteed annual income, help, humanism, humanistic scholarship, intellectualism, intellectuality, know-how, knowledge, learnedness, learning, letters, literacy, lore, old-age insurance, pecuniary aid, pedantism, pedantry, pension, preparation, price support, public assistance, public welfare, reading, relief, retirement benefits, scholarliness, schooling, science, stipend, studiousness, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, support, tax benefit, training, welfare, welfare aid, welfare payments