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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

v. To gain knowledge, comprehension, or mastery of through experience or study.

v. To fix in the mind or memory; memorize: learned the speech in a few hours.

v. To acquire experience of or an ability or a skill in: learn tolerance; learned how to whistle.

v. To become aware: learned that it was best not to argue.

v. To become informed of; find out. See Synonyms at discover.

v. Nonstandard To cause to acquire knowledge; teach.

v. Obsolete To give information to.

verb-intransitive. To gain knowledge, information, comprehension, or skill: learns quickly; learned about computers; learned of the job through friends.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

v. To teach.

v. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

v. To attend a course or other educational activity.

v. To make use of a bad experience.

v. To improve, maybe used in an order.

v. To be studying.

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

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

v. 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

v. To communicate knowledge to; to teach.

verb-intransitive. To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

To gain or acquire knowledge of or skill in; become informed of or acquainted with: as, to learn grammar; to learn the truth.

To teach.

To acquire or receive knowledge, information, or intelligence; receive instruction; profit from teaching: as, to learn how to act; the child learns rapidly.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

v. get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

v. find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

v. impart skills or knowledge to

v. gain knowledge or skills

v. commit to memory; learn by heart

v. be a student of a certain subject

Word Usage

"He beat all Ireland in the Intermediate examinations, and when I met him in America years afterwards he said: ‘There is nothing I cannot learn and nothing that I want to learn’.534 Some instinct drew us together, it was to him I used to read my poems."

Antonym

teach forget

Verb Form

learned learning learns learnt

Variant

learnt

Hyponym

trip up catch discover ascertain get the goods wise up find test absorb ingest

Form

learner learned

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

teach study

Rhyme

Words with the same terminal sound

Bern Berne Fern Hearn Herne Kern Laverne Stern Sterne Verne

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Education Voices

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Words that are found in similar contexts

erudition scholarship education wisdom accomplishment insight piety literature research ingenuity