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🇮🇹Italian Source WordCode: IT

borsa di studio

Pronunciation / Transliteration: borsa di studio

🇬🇧 Direct English Meaning:
Scholarship/ˈskɒl.ə.ʃɪp/
nounCEFR B2 (Upper)Top #4500 frequency
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🇮🇹 Example Sentence in Italian:

"Ha vinto una borsa di studio per l'università."

Comprehensive Definitions & Senses

2 senses
As noun
  1. 1

    A grant or payment made to support a student's education, awarded on the basis of academic or other achievement.

    "She won a scholarship to study at Oxford University."
  2. 2

    Academic study or achievement; learning of a high level.

    "The book is a work of exceptional scholarship."
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Linguistic Origin & Historical Etymology

Derived from Middle English, originating from medieval Latin 'scholariscus', based on Greek 'scholē' meaning leisure or schools. Over centuries, it evolved from meaning scholarly learning or erudition to its modern economic sense of a grant or payment made to support a student's education.

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