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398 words match “LEARN”

LEARN v. 3 definitions

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. "Learn to do well." Is. i. 17. Now learn a parable of the fig tree. Matt. xxiv. 32.…

Such as can be learned.

Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory. The learnedlover lost no time. Spenser. Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing. Locke. Words…

One who learns; a scholar.

LEARNING n. 2 definitions

The acquisition of knowledge or skill; as, the learning of languages; the learning of telegraphy.

BOOK-LEARNED a.

having knowledge derived from books. [Often in a disparaging sense.] Whate'er these book-learned blockheads say, Solon's the veriest fool in all the play. Dryden.

The quality or state of being clear.

HALF-LEARNED a.

Imperfectly learned.

To learn wrongly.

OUTLEARN v. 2 definitions

To learn out [i. e., completely, utterly]; to exhaust knowledge of. Naught, according to his mind, He could outlearn. Spenser. Men and gods have not outlearned it [love]. Emerson.

Too learned. -- O"ver*learn"ed, adv. -- O"ver*learn"ed*ness, n.

UNLEARN v. 2 definitions

To forget, as what has been learned; to lose from memory; also, to learn the contrary of. I had learned nothing right; I had to unlearn everything. Milner.

UNLEARNED a. 3 definitions

Not learned; untaught; uneducated; ignorant; illiterate.

One who is learning the alphabet; hence, a tyro.

alled with misopinion, ablative directions are found needful to unteach error, ere we can learn truth. Bp. Hall.

te from apprehension; difficult to be comprehended or understood; recondite; as, abstruse learning. Profound and abstruse topics. Milman.

ACADEMIC; ACADEMICAL a.

Belonging to an academy or other higher institution of learning; scholarly; literary or classical, in distinction from scientific. "Academic courses." Warburton. "Academical study." Berkeley.

ACADEMY n. 2 definitions

An institution for the study of higher learning; a college or a university. Popularly, a school, or seminary of learning, holding a rank between a college and a common school.

nfessedly knotty and difficult can never be accorded but by a competent stock of critical learning. South.

The thing acquired or gained; an acquirement; a gain; as, learning is an acquisition.