Antonyms for scholarship


Grammar : Noun
Spell : skol-er-ship
Phonetic Transcription : ˈskɒl ərˌʃɪp


Definition of scholarship

Origin :
  • 1530s, "status of a scholar," from scholar + -ship. Meaning "learning, erudition" is from 1580s; sense of "source of funds for support or maintenance of a scholar" is from 1580s.
  • noun knowledge
  • noun grant
Example sentences :
  • I've passed all my high school examinations and I've a scholarship too.
  • Extract from : « Grace Harlowe's Return to Overton Campus » by Jessie Graham Flower
  • They at least will understand that scholarship knows no nationality.
  • Extract from : « The Dramatic Values in Plautus » by Wilton Wallace Blancke
  • There was to be scholarship and company and curiosity and enquiry.
  • Extract from : « Changing Winds » by St. John G. Ervine
  • He too was full of his own affairs, for he had just been up to try for a scholarship at Oxford.
  • Extract from : « Howards End » by E. M. Forster
  • He was a weakling, and had no love of boyish sports; but he excelled in scholarship.
  • Extract from : « A Son of Hagar » by Sir Hall Caine
  • We set up no standards aside from character and scholarship.
  • Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
  • For example, you work hard for a scholarship at Oxford or Cambridge—why?
  • Extract from : « War Letters of a Public-School Boy » by Paul Jones.
  • I'd like, as a sort of scholarship, to send her for a year or two to Lincoln School.
  • Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott
  • I want to build some sort of a scholarship for Lincoln that isn't founded on books.
  • Extract from : « Highacres » by Jane Abbott
  • And they sent me to Amsterdam to try for a scholarship, and I won it.
  • Extract from : « The Moon and Sixpence » by W. Somerset Maugham

Synonyms for scholarship

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