Learn
[lɜːn] or [lɝn]
Definition
(verb.) gain knowledge or skills; 'She learned dancing from her sister'; 'I learned Sanskrit'; 'Children acquire language at an amazing rate'.
(verb.) get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally; 'I learned that she has two grown-up children'; 'I see that you have been promoted'.
(verb.) be a student of a certain subject; 'She is reading for the bar exam'.
Inputed by Kirsten--From WordNet
Definition
(v. t.) To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something.
(v. t.) To communicate knowledge to; to teach.
(v. i.) To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly.
Editor: Maureen
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Get a knowledge of, acquire skill in, make one's self acquainted with, make one's self master of.[2]. Be informed of.
Typist: Nicholas
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Acquire, attain, imbibe, collect, glean, understand, gather
ANT:Lose, forget, teach, instruct
Typist: Rowland
Definition
v.t. to acquire knowledge of to get to know: to gain power of performing: (prov.) to teach.—v.i. to gain knowledge: to improve by example.—adjs. Learn′able that may be learned; Learn′ed having learning: versed in literature &c.: skilful.—adv. Learn′edly.—ns. Learn′edness; Learn′er one who learns: one who is yet in the rudiments of any subject; Learn′ing what is learned: knowledge: scholarship: skill in languages or science.—New learning the awakening to classical learning in England in the 16th century led by Colet Erasmus Warham More &c.
Typist: Marvin
Examples
- You will learn very easily. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- Wheer, I couldn't learn. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- From him the poor may learn to acquire wealth, and the rich to adapt it to the purposes of beneficence. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- I wired to Cambridge to learn if anything had been heard of him there. Arthur Conan Doyle. The Return of Sherlock Holmes.
- Well, it does look pleasant, but I can't learn how it's done. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- A few men, philosophers or lovers of wisdom--or truth--may by study learn at least in outline the proper patterns of true existence. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- I have called this misplaced rationality a piece of learned folly, because it shows itself most dangerously among those thinkers about politics who are divorced from action. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- We must not have you getting too learned for a woman, you know. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- She could write letters enough for both, as she knew to her cost, and it was far better for him to be amiable than learned. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I had learned that General Buell himself would be at Savannah the next day, and desired to meet me on his arrival. Ulysses S. Grant. Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant.
- Amy was fretting because her lessons were not learned, and she couldn't find her rubbers. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- We bought books and magazines in the town and a copy of Hoyle and learned many two-handed card games. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- The human watchdogs must be philosophers or lovers of learning which will make them gentle. Plato. The Republic.
- You are not learning economy. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- You work hard at your learning, I know. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- I should like to be the representative of Oxford, with its beauty and its learning, and its proud old history. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- I don't know how long it will last, but I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- I think my little girl is learning this. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- But before extinction overtook them, even the Neanderthalers learnt much and went far. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Fanny had indeed nothing to convey from aunt Norris, but a message to say she hoped that her god-daughter was a good girl, and learnt her book. Jane Austen. Mansfield Park.
- I have learnt patience--I can wait my time. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- But so from rough outsides (I hope I have learnt), serene and gentle influences often proceed. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- We won't make an author of you, while there's an honest trade to be learnt, or brick-making to turn to. Charles Dickens. Oliver Twist.
- On inquiry, however, of the constable's wife he learnt that the constable was not at home. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- There is no art which one government sooner learns of another, than that of draining money from the pockets of the people. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- In other words, what he learns are connections. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- At most he learns simply to improve his existing technique; he does not get new points of view; he fails to experience any intellectual companionship. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- What the pupil learns he at least understands. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The pupil learns symbols without the key to their meaning. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- One learns more in a town than you _analfabetos_ learn in thy sea or thy land. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
Checker: Susie