Learnling

Quick meaning: Learnling is a noun meaning (rare, nonstandard) One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice.

Meaning

(rare, nonstandard) One who learns; pupil; student; apprentice.

Example Sentences

Perchance in upland pastures there may stray Some learnling of the elder fold, to teach [...]

So faulty was his knowledge that to this day impotent learnlings, who have drowned their little souls in printer's ink, find a cheap pleasure in holding up to ridicule the "ignorance," the "lack of system," the "fallacies and errors," of this man who was all heart; smiling contemptuously, too, these impotent learnlings, as if it were more honorable and more praiseworthy to be all head, no matter how diminutive and vapory.

Word Forms

• learnlings

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include learner, learning-knight, pupil, disciple, relearner, e-learner.

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