Experience

Quick meaning: Experience is a noun meaning (countable) An activity one has performed.

Meaning

(countable) An activity one has performed.

More Meanings

1. (usually uncountable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
2. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
3. (gaming, originally roleplaying games) Synonym of experience points
4. (corporate) A business offering in which a major focus is the way that the customer interacts with the business throughout the transaction, as opposed to only its outcome (the product or service).
5. (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
6. The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
7. (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.

Example Sentences

It was an experience he would not soon forget.

they knew soone by experience how slenderly guarded against danger, the majestie of Rulers is

Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.

March 20, 1684-5, John Sharp, Sermon preached at Whitehall Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.

Word Forms

• experiences
• experiencing
• experienced

Synonyms for experience

Depending on context, synonyms include undergo, have, feel, live, get, know.

Antonyms for experience

Common opposites include inexperience.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include know, receive, have, feel, live, get.

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