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

to learn

∞ 1.0
Remember words and facts so you can say them later
  • verb
  • /lɜrn/
translation icon : memorizar
  • I buy books to help them learn and use the software in the classroom.
  • learn words
  • learn songs
  • previously learned

Jack wanted to impress Priya, so he learned a few words in Hindi.

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Examples

  • You will have to learn some of the stuff for the exam.

  • Put all you have learned here to good use.

    Milarepa (2025)

  • But it still took years for me to learn how to actually perform.

  • There are things that you learn just to get the job.

  • An animal can learn to fight.

    Spartacus (1960)

  • Classroom instruction needs to include how to learn in addition to what to learn.

    Academic text (2008)

  • If you learn nothing else on your visit to this country, memorize that fact.

    The Manchurian Candidate (1962)

  • The band students clearly enjoyed the folk song, especially when they learned the translated lyrics.

    Academic text (2013)

  • Preservice teachers systematically learned skills and then applied them in a variety of laboratory experiences.

    Academic text (2008)

  • She needs to learn the vocabulary for her language class.

Synonyms

to memorize
vsto learn
175 2.3

Learn something so you can remember it exactly

is identical in meaning but used as the general term
to know by heart
vsto learn
22 2.6

Remember something so well that you can say it without reading

involves committing information without requiring full recitable mastery

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 retain
47 3.2
to learn
∞ 1.0
to study
∞ 1.0
to note
158 1.3

Surface Forms

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

Etymology

Learn comes from the old English leornian, used for gaining knowledge and also for remembering things. So when actors must 'learn' their lines, they are making those words part of their memory for later use.