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scholastic

scholastic

11 5.1
About education and schools
  • adjective
  • /skəˈlæstɪk/
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  • The school's emphasis on scholastic achievement motivates students to perform better in their studies.
  • scholastic aptitude
  • scholastic competence
  • scholastic achievement

I've seen scholarship programs for talent, for athletic ability, and obviously for scholastic achievement.

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Examples

  • There is also a final sign-up for next week's scholastic decathlon competition.

  • I fail to see any merit or scholastic value in anything listed on that board.

  • So the kids are on this like competitive scholastic team, and it's really hard.

  • The story that appears here won a Gold Award in The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards of 1998.

    Fiction book (1998)
  • The Highest Scholastic Achievement Award for Science.

  • Fifth grade, Junior Scholastic Magazine.

  • This could mark the beginning of a very dangerous trend in your scholastic career, a trend that could have a severe effect on your future.

  • My poetry experience has always been confined to a scholastic atmosphere, with one exception.

    Academic text (2011)
  • If you can develop and maintain certain study habits, your scholastic load can be considerably lightened.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Acclaimed novelist Bernard Malamud was a Scholastic Writing Award winner when he was a teenager.

    Fiction book (2000)

Synonyms

academic
vsscholastic
383 4.2

Connected to schools, colleges, university study, or research

is narrower, focusing mainly on schools and basic education
academical
vsscholastic
  • Archaic
9.9

Relating to schools or universities and the study done there

is the modern term used for school or education contexts

How Academic

academic
383 4.2
scholastic
11 5.1
educational
443 2.7

Surface Forms

scholastic positive

Morphology

scholastic = school (semi-transparent) = schol + astic

The connection to 'school' is clear, but the specific academic connotation is not a standard derivation.

Etymology

Scholastic comes from the Greek scholē, which first meant 'leisure' and then 'place of learning', and it is the same root as English school and scholar. So scholastic means anything 'relating to schools or education'.