Learning
['lɜːnɪŋ] or ['lɝnɪŋ]
Definition
(noun.) the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge; 'the child's acquisition of language'.
Checker: McDonald--From WordNet
Definition
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Learn
(n.) The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.
(n.) The knowledge or skill received by instruction or study; acquired knowledge or ideas in any branch of science or literature; erudition; literature; science; as, he is a man of great learning.
Checked by Douglas
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Acquisition of knowledge.[2]. Erudition, scholarship, acquirements, attainments, lore, acquired knowledge.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Knowledge, erudition, literature, lore, letters, acquirements, attainments,scholarship, education, tuition, culture
ANT:Ignorance, boorishness, it, literiteness, emptiness, sciolism, intuition,revelation, inspiration
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Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of learning, denotes that you will take great interest in acquiring knowledge, and if you are economical of your time, you will advance far into the literary world. To enter halls, or places of learning, denotes rise from obscurity, and finance will be a congenial adherent. To see learned men, foretells that your companions will be interesting and prominent. For a woman to dream that she is associated in any way with learned people, she will be ambitious and excel in her endeavors to rise into prominence.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious.
Typist: Psyche
Examples
- 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.
- By the ninth and tenth centuries there are not only grammars, but great lexicons, and a mass of philological learning in Islam. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Even before these incursions learning had suffered under the calamity of war. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
- We hear too much in history of the campaigns and massacres of the Mongols, and not enough of their indubitable curiosity and zest for learning. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- Other writers, of a different stamp, with great learning and gravity, endeavoured to prove to the English people that slavery was _jure divino_. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- The profits of stock seem to be very little affected by the easiness or difficulty of learning the trade in which it is employed. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- It's learning does it, and I've had my share, and a little more. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- In the previous chapter we found that the primary subject matter of knowing is that contained in learning how to do things of a fairly direct sort. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- He had, however, a real respect for learning and a real desire for knowledge, and he did his utmost to attract men of learning to his court. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- We crossed a walk to the other part of the academy, where, as I have already said, the projectors in speculative learning resided. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
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