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learns

learns is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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!

See all 8 meanings of learn

Proper noun capitalized: Learns

Learns

  1. (plural) plural of Learn

Phrases with learns

Questions about learns

What is learns the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Learns is the third-person singular simple present indicative of learn.
What part of speech is learns?
Learns is a proper noun.

Words near learns in the dictionary

  1. learningless
  2. learnings
  3. learnless
  4. learnling
  5. learnlings
  6. learns
  7. learns Chinese
  8. learns from experience
  9. learns one's lesson
  10. learns one's place
  11. learns the hard way

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Adapted from Wiktionary: learns (page history and authors); Learns (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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