verb
have
To undergo a particular personal experience.
We always have a good time at our neighborhood picnic.
Etymology
The inherited verb means to have or hold. Experience is treated as something a person has, extending possession to events or conditions encountered personally.
More examples
- I usually have soup for lunch.
- We had a pleasant surprise when our friends arrived.
- She had a baby last spring.
- He's having trouble sleeping tonight.
Forms
have · has · had · having
Similar words
- experience
- Experience directly names what someone feels or lives through.
- undergo
- Undergo usually describes a difficult experience, change, or procedure.