different between scholarship vs contribution

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

From Middle English contribucioun, contribucion, from Old French contribution, from Latin contrib?ti?nem, contrib?ti?, from Latin contribu?re.

Pronunciation

• (General American) IPA^(key): /?k?nt???bju??n/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?k?nt???bju???n/
• Rhymes: -u???n
• Hyphenation: con?tri?bu?tion

Noun

contribution (countable and uncountable, plural contributions)

1. Something given or offered that adds to a larger whole.
2. An amount of money given toward something.
3. The act of contributing.
4. The taking part, often with the idea that it has led to (scientific etc.) progress.

Translations

French

Etymology

From Latin contributio.

Pronunciation

Noun

contribution f (plural contributions)

1. contribution
2. (archaic) contribution: levy or impost.

Derived terms

• mettre à contribution

Further reading

• “contribution” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).