Financial aid provided to a student on the basis of academic merit.

Roget 560: language; phraseology etc. 569; speech etc. 582; tongue, lingo, vernacular; mother tongue, vulgar tongue, native tongue; household words; King's English, Queen's English; dialect etc. 563.    confusion of tongues, Babel, pasigraphie^†; pantomime etc. (signs) 550; onomatopoeia; betacism^†, mimmation, myatism^†, nunnation^†; pasigraphy^†.    lexicology, philology, glossology^†, glottology^†; linguistics, chrestomathy^†; paleology^†, paleography; comparative grammar.    literature, letters, polite literature, belles lettres [Fr.], muses, humanities, literae humaniores [Lat.], republic of letters, dead languages, classics; genius of language; scholarship etc. (scholar) 492.    ... show more

Polish: stypendium

Profound scholarly knowledge.

synonyms: encyclopaedism, encyclopedism, eruditeness, erudition, learnedness, learning.

Roget 490: knowledge; cognizance, cognition, cognoscence^†; acquaintance, experience, ken [Scot.], privity^†, insight, familiarity; comprehension, apprehension; recognition; appreciation etc. (judgment) 480; intuition; conscience, consciousness; perception, precognition; acroamatics^†.    light, enlightenment; glimpse, inkling; glimmer, glimmering; dawn; scent, suspicion; impression etc. (idea) 453; discovery etc. 480.1. system of knowledge, body of knowledge; science, philosophy, pansophy^†; acroama^†; theory, aetiology^†, etiology; circle of the sciences; pandect^†, doctrine, body of doctrine; cyclopedia, encyclopedia; school etc. (system of opinions) 484.    tree of knowledge; republic of letters etc. (language) 560.    erudition, learning, lore, scholarship, reading, letters; literature; book madness; book learning, bookishness; bibliomania^†, bibliolatry^†; information, general information; store of knowledge &c.; education etc. (teaching) 537; culture, menticulture^†, attainments; acquirements, acquisitions; accomplishments; proficiency; practical knowledge etc. (skill) 698; liberal education; dilettantism; rudiments etc. (beginning) 66.    deep knowledge, profound knowledge, solid knowledge, accurate knowledge, acroatic knowledge^†, acroamatic knowledge^†, vast knowledge, extensive knowledge, encyclopedic knowledge, encyclopedic learning; omniscience, pantology^†.    march of intellect; progress of science, advance of science, advance of learning; schoolmaster abroad.    [person who knows much] scholar etc. 492.    ... show more

Roget 539: learning; acquisition of knowledge etc. 490, acquisition of skill etc. 698; acquirement, attainment; edification, scholarship, erudition; acquired knowledge, lore, wide information; self-instruction; study, reading, perusal; inquiry etc. 451.    apprenticeship, prenticeship^†; pupilage, pupilarity^†; tutelage, novitiate, matriculation.    docility etc. (willingness) 602; aptitude etc. 698.    ... show more

Dutch: belezenheid, geleerdheid, eruditie, kennis, schoolkennis
Polish: erudycyjność, uczoność, oczytanie, erudycja