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living and learning

living and learning is the present participle and gerund of live and learn.

Meaning of live and learn

Verb

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

  1. An exhortation to gain knowledge from lived experiences. Commonly used after a misfortune to indicate a moral lesson.

Questions about living and learning

What is living and learning the present participle and gerund of?
Living and learning is the present participle and gerund of live and learn.

Words near living and learning in the dictionary

  1. living
  2. living a lie
  3. living a little
  4. living and breathing
  5. living and dying by
  6. living and learning
  7. living and letting live
  8. living at Her Majesty's pleasure
  9. living bandage
  10. living bandages
  11. living beyond one's means

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