lern

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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