Fulbright
Americannoun
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(James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
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Informal.
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a grant awarded under the provisions of the Fulbright Act.
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a person who receives such a grant.
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Usage
What is Fulbright? The Fulbright U.S. Student Program, or Fulbright for short, awards recent American college graduates grants to teach English or participate in research projects in other nations.Fulbright grant recipients, or Fulbrighters, work and live with the people they are teaching or researching with in their host countries. In order to qualify for a Fulbright grant, you must have recently earned a bachelor’s degree, be a graduate student with your field of study related to history, culture, or current events, or have several years of experience performing, studying, or writing in the field for which you apply. Fulbrighters may be sent to countries within the East Asia-Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, South and Central Asia, Sub-Saharan Africa, and other regions.
Example Sentences
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But before that she was a cultural anthropology major and Fulbright scholar who studied cultural identity among second-generation North African women in France.
She graduated with honors from Princeton University and completed a Fulbright Scholarship.
Yunus won a Fulbright scholarship to study in the United States and returned soon after Bangladesh won independence from Pakistan in 1971 following a war.
From Barron's
He was a Fulbright scholar in Yogyakarta, Indonesia, and speaks Bahasa Indonesia.
Prior to starting his journalism career, Dustin spent a year living in Indonesia as a Fulbright teaching assistant.
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