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larned

larned is the simple past and past participle of larn.

Meaning of larn

Verb

larn (third-person singular simple present larns, present participle larnin or larning, simple past and past participle larned or larnt)

  1. (Geordie, Northern England, especially) To learn.
  2. (Appalachia, Geordie, Northern England, especially, near archaic) To teach.
    • Larn yersel te taalk propa like!

Proper noun capitalized: Larned

Larned (countable and uncountable, plural Larneds)

  1. A surname transferred from the given name.
  2. A city, the county seat of Pawnee County, Kansas, United States.

Forms of larned

pluralLarneds

Origin of larned

The surname is a variant of the personal name Leonard. The city in Kansas is named after Fort Larned, which was named after Colonel Benjamin Larned.

Questions about larned

What does larned mean?
Larned means a surname transferred from the given name.
What is larned the simple past and past participle of?
Larned is the simple past and past participle of larn.
What part of speech is larned?
Larned is a proper noun.

Words near larned in the dictionary

  1. Larnaca
  2. larnakes
  3. larnax
  4. larnaxes
  5. Larne
  6. larned
  7. Larneds
  8. Larnell
  9. Larner
  10. Larners
  11. Larney

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Adapted from Wiktionary: larned (page history and authors); Larned (page history and authors); larn (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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