Learn

Quick meaning: Learn is a verb meaning To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

Meaning

To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.

More Meanings

1. To attend a course or other educational activity.
2. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
3. To study.
4. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
5. (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
6. The act of learning something.

Example Sentences

Every day I learn more about this great city.

a school in which he learns sly circumvention

Toddlers learn to walk at around one year old.

It's time Dad learned (how) to change the oil in the car.

Word Forms

• learns
• learning
• learned
• learnt
• learnest
• learnedst
• learneth
• learne

Synonyms for learn

Depending on context, synonyms include study, ascertain, see, check, determine, take.

Antonyms for learn

Common opposites include forget, teach.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include instruct, teach, con, see, read, ascertain.

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