different between scholastic vs scholarship

English

Alternative forms

• Scholastic
• scholastick (archaic)

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French scholastique, from Latin scholasticus, from Ancient Greek ??????????? (skholastikós).

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /sk??læst?k/
• Rhymes: -æst?k

Noun

scholastic (plural scholastics)

1. (philosophy) A member of the medieval philosophical school of scholasticism; a medieval Christian Aristotelian.

Translations

Adjective

scholastic (comparative more scholastic, superlative most scholastic)

1. Of or relating to school; academic

2. (philosophy) Of or relating to the philosophical tradition of scholasticism
3. Characterized by excessive subtlety, or needlessly minute subdivisions; pedantic; formal.

Derived terms

• scholasticism
• scholastically

Related terms

• scholar
• academic

Translations

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.