scholarship

Etymology

From scholar + -ship.

noun

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

1. (intransitive) To attend an institution on a scholarship.
   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.
   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