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scholarship

[ skol-er-ship ]

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noun

learning; knowledge acquired by study; the academic attainments of a scholar.
a sum of money or other aid granted to a student, because of merit, need, etc., to pursue their studies.
the position or status of a student who has been granted money or other aid to pursue their studies.
a foundation to provide financial assistance to students.

scholarship

/ ˈskɒləʃɪp /

academic achievement; erudition; learning
1. financial aid provided for a scholar because of academic merit
2. the position of a student who gains this financial aid
3. ( as modifier )
  a scholarship student
the qualities of a scholar

First recorded in 1525–35; scholar + -ship

This is both an outstanding work of scholarship and a commanding visual document.

And despite the good scholarship the authors have managed to retain the buoyancy and upbeat air attendant on most comics.

In the fall, I received a Rhodes Scholarship—I approached arrogance.

He won a scholarship to Villanova and ended up here in Lawrence.

Time and again, he has highlighted my scholarship and I have never felt that he has short-changed me.

Aguinaldoʼs scholarship is too meagre for an elevated position, and his dignity and self-respect too great for an inferior one.

"Mr. Everard was very much struck with Norman's knowledge and scholarship too," said Flora.

Born in 1797, he pursued a course of study at the Lyceum, to which he had obtained a scholarship.

The eldest, a fine fellow of eighteen, had carried off a scholarship at Aberdeen University.

Before the scholarship, came the Little-go, so called in the language of men, but known to the gods as the Previous Examination.

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