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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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Adjective (1)

learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)

1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
   • the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto III”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   brainy, erudite, knowledgeable, scholarly, educated

   Antonyms:

   unlearned, ignorant, stupid, thick, uneducated, benighted, cimmerian, clueless, foolish, ill-informed

2. (formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
3. Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
   • But our limits will not permit us to discuss the many important and curious questions respecting the science of government, to which this learned work invites attention.1831 March, anonymous author, “The History of the Doric Race”, in The Edinburgh Review, volume LIII, number CV (book review), page 130

Adjective (2)

learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)

1. Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
   • Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.

   Antonyms:

   unlearned

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