noun
scholar
A student awarded financial support for education.
The young scholar receives funding to study engineering overseas.
Etymology
The source concerns a school or its students. Scholar acquired a specific institutional sense for a student holding an awarded place or financial support.
More examples
- Two Rhodes scholars attended the reception.
- The foundation selected five new scholars.
- Each scholar must maintain satisfactory academic progress.
Forms
scholar · scholars
Similar words
- fellow
- Often a funded researcher or postgraduate rather than any scholarship recipient.
- grantee
- Grantee receives funding but not necessarily an educational scholarship.