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outlearn

Syllables: out·learnUK/aʊtˈlɜːn/US/aʊtˈlɝn/

outlearn verb: to surpass (someone) in learning.

Verb

outlearn (third-person singular simple present outlearns, present participle outlearning, simple past and past participle outlearned or outlearnt)

  1. (transitive) To surpass (someone) in learning.
    • By eleven years old, the young genius had outlearned most of his teachers.
  2. (obsolete, transitive) To learn (something) completely and thoroughly; to exhaust knowledge of.
    • But when as nought according to his mind / He could outlearne1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book IV, Canto VII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 24
    • To love and be beloved; / Men and gods have not outlearned it; / And, how oft soe'er they've turned it, / 'Tis not to be improved.1847, R[alph] W[aldo] Emerson, “Eros”, in Poems, Boston, Mass.: James Munroe and Company, →OCLC, page 150

outlearn meaning in Bengali

outlearn in Bengali

শিক্ষায় ছাড়িয়ে যাওয়া, পুরোপুরি এবং পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খভাবে শেখা

Forms of outlearn

third-person singular presentoutlearns
present participleoutlearning
past participleoutlearned
pastoutlearned
past participleoutlearnt
pastoutlearnt

Origin of outlearn

From out- + learn.

Words that rhyme with outlearn

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Questions about outlearn

What does outlearn mean?
Outlearn means to surpass (someone) in learning.
What is outlearn in Bengali?
Outlearn in Bengali is শিক্ষায় ছাড়িয়ে যাওয়া, পুরোপুরি এবং পুঙ্খানুপুঙ্খভাবে শেখা. See Outlearn meaning in Bengali.
What part of speech is outlearn?
Outlearn is a verb.
How do you pronounce outlearn?
Outlearn is pronounced /aʊtˈlɜːn/ (UK).
What is the past tense of outlearn?
The past tense of outlearn is outlearned.

Words near outlearn in the dictionary

  1. outleap
  2. outleaped
  3. outleaping
  4. outleaps
  5. outleapt
  6. outlearn
  7. outlearned
  8. outlearning
  9. outlearns
  10. outlearnt
  11. outled

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outlearn (page history and authors); outlearn (Bengali Wiktionary) (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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