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scholarship
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)
- A grant-in-aid to a student.
- The character or qualities of a scholar.
- The activity, methods or attainments of a scholar.
- (uncountable) The sum of knowledge accrued by scholars; the realm of refined learning.
- (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)
- (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.
- (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.
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boon
English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bu?n/
- Rhymes: -u?n
Etymology 1
From Middle English boon (“prayer”), from Old Norse bón (“prayer, petition”), from Proto-Germanic *b?niz (“supplication”), influenced by boon (“good, favorable”, adj). Doublet of ben; see there for more.
Noun
boon (plural boons)
- (obsolete) A prayer; petition.
- (archaic) That which is asked or granted as a benefit or favor; a gift or benefaction.
- 1881, The Bible (English Revised Version), James 1:17:
- Every good gift and every perfect boon is from above [...]
- 1872, James De Mille, The Cryptogram:[1]
- I gave you life. Can you not return the boon by giving me death, my lord?
- 1881, The Bible (English Revised Version), James 1:17:
- A good thing; a blessing or benefit; a thing to be thankful for.
- (Britain, dialectal) An unpaid service due by a tenant to his lord.
Synonyms
- (a thing received) See gift and favor
- (a good thing) blessing; benefit
Antonyms
- bane
Translations
See also
- boon and bane
- boon or bane
Etymology 2
From Middle English boon, bone, borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”), from Latin bonus (“good”), from Old Latin duonus, dvenos, from Proto-Indo-European *d?- (“to respect”).
Adjective
boon (not comparable)
- (obsolete) Good; prosperous.
- (archaic) Kind; bountiful; benign.
- Which […] Nature boon / Poured forth profuse on hill, and dale, and plain.
- (now only in boon companion) gay; merry; jovial; convivial.
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
- a boon companion, loving his bottle
- Episode 16
- ?No, Mr Bloom repeated again, I wouldn't personally repose much trust in that boon companion of yours who contributes the humorous element, if I were in your shoes.
- Les Misérables (musical), "Master of the House," second and third refrains, fifth line:
- (2) "Everybody's boon companion, / Everybody's chaperon"; (3) "Everybody's boon companion: / Give[s] 'em everything he's got"
- 1712, John Arbuthnot, The History of John Bull
Related terms
- bounty
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English bone (North), akin to or alteration of Old English bune (“reed”).
Noun
boon (uncountable)
- The woody portion of flax, separated from the fiber as refuse matter by retting, braking, and scutching.
Synonyms
- shive, shove
References
Anagrams
- Bono, NOBO, Obon, noob
Afrikaans
Etymology
From Dutch boon, from Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *b?na, from Proto-Germanic *baun?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /b???n/
Noun
boon (plural bone, diminutive boontjie)
- bean
Descendants
- ? Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
Dutch
Etymology
From Middle Dutch bône, from Old Dutch *b?na, from Proto-Germanic *baun?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?n/
- (Belgium) IPA(key): [bo?n]
- (Netherlands) IPA(key): [bo??n]
- (Netherlands)
- Hyphenation: boon
- Rhymes: -o?n
Noun
boon f or m (plural bonen, diminutive boontje n)
- bean
Hypernyms
- peulvrucht
Derived terms
- blauwe boon
- bonenkruid
- bruine boon
- cacaoboon
- kidneyboon
- koffieboon
- rumboon
- snijboon
- sojaboon
- sperzieboon
- tuinboon
- witte boon
Descendants
- Afrikaans: boon
- ? Xhosa: imbotyi (from the diminutive)
- ? Indonesian: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
- ? Javanese: buncis (from the diminutive plural)
- ? Papiamentu: bonchi (from the diminutive)
- ? Sranan Tongo: bonki (from the diminutive)
Middle English
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /bo?n/
Etymology 1
Borrowed from Old Norse bón, from Proto-Germanic *b?niz.
Alternative forms
- bone
Noun
boon (plural boons or boonen)
- prayer, supplication, request
- boon, bonus
Descendants
- English: boon
- Scots: boon
Etymology 2
From Old English b?n.
Noun
boon (plural boons)
- Alternative form of bon
Etymology 3
Borrowed from Old Northern French boon, from Old French bon (“good”).
Alternative forms
- bone
Adjective
boon
- good
Descendants
- English: boon
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