studentship

noun

stu·​dent·​ship ˈstü-dᵊnt-ˌship 

ˈstyü-, 

-dənt-

1

British : a grant for university study

2

: the state of being a student

Examples of studentship in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Headquartered in Poole, on the UK’s south coast, the company is interested in larger-scale tidal power and has just co-funded a three-year PhD studentship at nearby Bournemouth University. — Victoria Turk, WIRED, 26 Jan. 2025

His imprint within Penguin Random House UK, #MerkyBooks, is dedicated to publishing new fiction, non-fiction and poetry books and awards an annual studentship to two Black British students planning to attend the University of Cambridge. — Hannah Dailey, Billboard, 22 July 2021

Like most American yoga teacher trainings, my yoga teacher training center had a predominantly White teaching staff and studentship. — Jessamyn Stanley, Glamour, 26 Jan. 2021

In a gesture of extraordinary generosity last year, when awarded a Special Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics, Bell Burnell donated the entire three million dollars to studentships for women and other groups underrepresented in physics. — Angela Saini, National Geographic, 15 Oct. 2019

Word History

First Known Use

1772, in the meaning defined at sense 2

Rhymes for studentship

• authorship
• battleship
• censorship
• chairmanship
• chieftainship
• comradeship
• consulship
• craftsmanship
• dealership
• draftsmanship
• fellowship
• fingertip