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learnd

learnd is the obsolete spelling of learned, simple past and past participle of learn.

Meaning of learn

Verb

learn (third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or learnt)

  1. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
    • It's time Dad learned (how) to change the oil in the car.
  2. To attend a course or other educational activity.
    • For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], →OCLC
  3. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
    • learn from one's mistakes
  4. To study.
    • I learn medicine.
  5. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
    • He just learned that he will be sacked.
  6. (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
    • Give him a clip round the ear. That'll learn him!

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Questions about learnd

What is learnd the obsolete spelling of learned, simple past and past participle of?
Learnd is the obsolete spelling of learned, simple past and past participle of learn.

Words near learnd in the dictionary

  1. learn'd
  2. learnabilities
  3. learnability
  4. learnable
  5. learnables
  6. learnd
  7. learne
  8. learned
  9. learned borrowing
  10. learned borrowings
  11. learned Chinese

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Adapted from Wiktionary: learnd (page history and authors); learn (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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