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📚 To gain knowledge 📰 To find out 🧠 To memorize 🤖 To train (computer)
to learn

to learn

∞ 1.0
Get knowledge and skills in a subject by study or practice
  • verb
  • /lɜrn/
translation icon : aprender
  • In school, students will learn basic math skills that they will use all their lives.
  • students learn
  • children learn
  • help people learn

I would say, you know, First off, learn your craft, right?

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Examples

  • Students gain real-world experience as they learn to be responsible citizens functioning outside the classroom.

    Academic text (2013)

  • You should be always trying to learn more, evolve more.

    True Geordie

  • It's about what you learn by writing for yourself.

  • This was a way for children to learn words.

  • Above all, love to learn and learn to love.

  • Perhaps now a few more will learn, but probably not.

  • You should learn to relax a bit more.

    Werewolf Cabal (2022)

  • We may come to care about what we learn and apply that knowledge in practical ways.

    Academic text (2013)

  • The notion that teachers in America learn to teach by teaching is not new.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Digital media is changing the way young people are learning, which is more social and interest-driven.

    Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

to study
vsto learn
∞ 1.0

To learn about a subject by reading or going to classes

includes gaining skill from practice, teaching, and everyday experience
to acquire
vsto learn
458 3.3

To get something or learn a skill over time

is limited to gaining knowledge or skill through teaching, practice, or experience

Antonyms

to forget
∞ 1.0

Not remember something you should remember

to unlearn
9 6.4

To stop a habit or belief you had before

Idioms

to learn one's lesson
  • Informal
34 3.4

A person notices they made a mistake and does things differently to avoid it again

to learn the hard way
  • Informal
22 6.0

Find out by going through a difficult or painful experience instead of being warned

to learn the ropes
  • Informal
9 3.4

To begin to understand how to do a job by gaining basic skills

to learn one's place
  • Informal
1 8.2

To accept your position in a group, often lower in status

learn to walk before you can run
  • Informal
4.2

Start with basic skills before trying harder tasks

Phrasal Verbs

to learn the truth
31 3.0

To find out what really happened

How Well

to master
191 4.1
to apply
374 2.8
to learn
∞ 1.0
to understand
∞ 1.0
to pick up
∞ 2.6

Surface Forms

learn infinitive
learned past
learned past participle
learning present participle
learns third person singular

Etymology

Learn comes from the old English word leornian, which meant 'to get knowledge' or 'study'. It is related to the English word lore meaning 'knowledge', so to learn is to add new knowledge to yourself.