SCHOLARSHIP

[noun] [U]Her book on Chinese verbs is a work of great scholarship (= serious detailed study).Recent historical scholarship has contradicted many commonly held ideas about the Roman invasion.A scholarship is an amount of money given by a school, college, university or other organization to pay for a person with great ability but little money to study.He won a scholarship to Eton.He won a scholarship to study at Eton.She's been awarded a Rhodes scholarship.Paula went up to Oxford on a scholarship.