Other forms: scholarships
A scholarship is money given to a talented student so they can afford to study. Win a scholarship, a full scholarship, scholarship students.
It is awarded for merit where a bursary is awarded for need, though the words are often used loosely. The second sense is quite different: scholarship also means serious academic work — a work of great scholarship. Note scholar beneath it.
1nounscholarshipMoney awarded to a student to fund study.
“She won a scholarship to study music at a university in London.”
2nounseriousSerious academic work.
“Her book on medieval music is a fine piece of scholarship, based on years of research.”
Too few real examples of this word to estimate which sense is commonest.
scholarship is an award, or a body of study.
Proto-Indo-European
*seǵʰ-
Middle English
scolere
English
scholar
English, today
scholarship
Built from
From scholar + -ship. scholar comes from Middle English scolere. From Middle English scolar, scolare, scoler, scolere (also scholer), from Old English scōlere (“scholar, learner”), from Latin scholāris, from schola (“school”), from Ancient Greek σχολή (“spare time, leisure", later, "conversations and the knowledge gained through them during free time; the places where these conversations took place”), equivalent to school + ar. a doublet of schooler and Schuyler and escolar. Compare stq Sköiler, Middle Low German schö̂lære, schö̂lere, schö̂ler (> modern German Low German Schöler), Dutch scholier, German Schüler.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA