scholarship

4 definitions • 4 examples

serious, detailed study:

a work of great scholarship

an amount of money given by a school, college, university, or other organization to pay for the studies of a person with great ability but little money:

He got/won a scholarship to Harvard.

Paula went to the Royal College of Music on a scholarship.

the qualities, methods, or achievements of a scholar:

[ U ] Recent scholarship has addressed this scientific issue.

A scholarship is also money given to someone to help pay for that person's education.