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learnyng

learnyng is the obsolete spelling of learning.

Meaning of learning

Noun

learning (usually uncountable, plural learnings)

  1. (usually) An act in which something is learned.
  2. (usually) Accumulated knowledge.
    • The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
  3. (countable, proscribed, usually) Something that has been learned.
    • “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.”2007 April 5, Stuart Elliott, “Online Experiment for Print Magazine”, in New York Times

Questions about learnyng

What is learnyng the obsolete spelling of?
Learnyng is the obsolete spelling of learning.

Words near learnyng in the dictionary

  1. learnt one's place
  2. learnt the hard way
  3. learnt the ropes
  4. learnt to walk before one could run
  5. learny
  6. learnyng
  7. Learnys
  8. learnèd
  9. learnèd borrowing
  10. learnèd borrowings
  11. learnèdly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: learnyng (page history and authors); learning (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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