learn
Plural: learns
Verb
Verb Forms: learned, learnt, learning, learns
- To gain knowledge or skill through study, experience, or instruction.
- gain knowledge or skills
- "She learned dancing from her sister"
- "I learned Sanskrit"
- get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
- "I learned that she has two grown-up children"
- commit to memory; learn by heart
- be a student of a certain subject
- impart skills or knowledge to
- find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort
- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To study.
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
- To teach.
Noun
- The act of learning something.
Examples
- Give him a clip round the ear. That'll learn him!
- He just learned that he will be sacked.
- I learn medicine.
- learn from one's mistakes
- They learn psychology.
- You LEARN quickly that saving high-value letters is crucial in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English lernen (“to learn", also, "to teach"”), from Old English leornian (“to learn", rarely also, "to teach”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnōn, from Proto-Germanic *lizaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(le-)lóys-e, stative from the root *leys- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”).
Cognate with Old Frisian lernia, lerna (“to learn”), Middle Low German lernen (“to learn", also, "to teach”), Middle Dutch leernen (“to learn", also, "to teach”) (whence Dutch lernen (“to study scripture”)), German lernen (“to learn”). See also lore and lear.
Synonyms
acquire, ascertain, check, con, determine, discover, find out, get a line, get wind, get word, hear, instruct, larn, memorise, memorize, pick up, read, see, study, take, teach, watch
Scrabble Score: 5
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