different between scholarship vs bequest

English

Etymology

From scholar +? -ship.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?sk?l???p/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?sk??l????p/

Noun

scholarship (countable and uncountable, plural scholarships)

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.

Synonyms

• (money to assist a student to study): allowance, grant, stipend, subsidy, bursary
• (character of a scholar):
• (activity of a scholar): scholarly method
• (knowledge accrued by the activity of scholars):

Related terms

• school
• scholar, scholarly
• scholarism (archaic)
• scholastic, scholasticism
• scholasticate

Translations

Verb

scholarship (third-person singular simple present scholarships, present participle scholarshiping or scholarshipping, simple past and past participle scholarshiped or scholarshipped)

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.

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.

   • Judith Lewis is a doctoral student at State University, and she also works full-time as an academic tutor for 10 scholarshiped student athletes.

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English biqueste, bequeste (“will, testament, bequest”), from be +? -quiste, queste (“saying, utterance, testament, will, legacy”), from Old English *cwist, *cwiss (“saying”) (compare Old English andcwiss, ?ecwis, uncwisse, etc.), from Proto-Germanic *kwissiz (“saying”), from Proto-Indo-European *g?et- (“to say”). Related to Old English andcwiss (“answer, reply”), Old English uncwisse (“dumb, mute”), Middle English bequethen (“to bequeath”). More at quoth, bequeath.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /b??kw?st/

Noun

bequest (plural bequests)

1. The act of bequeathing or leaving by will.
2. The transfer of property upon the owner's death according to the will of the deceased.
3. That which is left by will; a legacy.
4. That which has been handed down or transmitted.
5. A person's inheritance; an amount of property given by will.

Synonyms

• bequeathal
• legacy
• gift
• donation

Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English biquesten, from the noun (see above).

Verb

bequest (third-person singular simple present bequests, present participle bequesting, simple past and past participle bequested)

1. (transitive) To give as a bequest; bequeath.

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