verb
learn
LURN/lɜːrn/
To gain knowledge, skill, or awareness through study, teaching, or experience.
The older beginner learns the knot by watching and copying the instructor's demonstration.
Etymology
Old English leornian covered reading, studying, and thinking about something. The modern sense preserves its central idea of acquiring knowledge, whether through deliberate study or practical experience.
In context
college is teaching us how to learn which we'll keep doing
More examples
- I learned about the change yesterday.
- She is learning a second language.
- We have learned from our mistakes.
Forms
learn · learns · learned · learning