different between scholarship vs literature
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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literature
English
Wikiquote
Wikisource
Wikibooks
Alternative forms
- literatuer (obsolete)
Etymology
From Middle English literature, from Old French littérature, from Latin literatura or litteratura, from littera (“letter”), from Etruscan, from Ancient Greek ??????? (diphthér?, “tablet”). Displaced native Old English b?ccræft.
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.??.t??(?)/, /?l?.t??.t??(?)/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t?.?.t??/, /?l?.t???.t??/, /?l?.t?.t??/
- (Midwestern US) IPA(key): /?l?.t?.t??/
Noun
literature (usually uncountable, plural literatures)
- The body of all written works.
- The collected creative writing of a nation, people, group, or culture.
- (usually preceded by the) All the papers, treatises, etc. published in academic journals on a particular subject.
- The obvious question to ask at this point is: ‘Why posit the existence of a set of Thematic Relations (THEME, AGENT, INSTRUMENT, etc.) distinct from constituent structure relations?? The answer given in the relevant literature is that a variety of linguistic phenomena can be accounted for in a more principled way in terms of Thematic Functions than in terms of constituent structure relations.
- Written fiction of a high standard.
- However, even “literary” science fiction rarely qualifies as literature, because it treats characters as sets of traits rather than as fully realized human beings with unique life stories. —Adam Cadre, 2008
Derived terms
Meronyms
- See also Thesaurus:literature
Related terms
- letter
- literal
- literacy
- literate
- literary
Translations
Further reading
- "literature" in Raymond Williams, Keywords (revised), 1983, Fontana Press, page 183.
Anagrams
- literateur, literatuer
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