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learning

/ˈlɜːnɪŋ/

verb

Meaning

  • 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.

    "learn from one's mistakes"

  • To study.

    "I learn medicine."

  • To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

    "He just learned that he will be sacked."

Synonyms

study

verb

Meaning

  • To teach.

    "Give him a clip round the ear. That'll learn him!"

noun

Meaning

  • An act in which something is learned.

  • Accumulated knowledge.

    "The department head was also a scholar of great learning."

  • Something that has been learned