learn

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Pronunciation 1.2 Etymology 1 1.2.1 Verb 1.2.1.1 Synonyms 1.2.1.2 Antonyms 1.2.1.3 Derived terms 1.2.1.4 Usage notes 1.2.1.5 Translations 1.3 Etymology 2 1.3.1 Verb 1.3.1.1 Usage notes 1.3.1.2 Derived terms 1.3.1.3 Related terms 1.4 References 1.5 Anagrams 2 Scots 2.1 Pronunciation 2.2 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Pronunciation

• enPR: lû(r)n, IPA: /lɜː(r)n/, SAMPA: /l3:(r)n/

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  Rhymes: -ɜː(r)n

[edit] Etymology 1

From Old English leornian (“‘to acquire knowledge’”)

[edit] Verb

to learn (third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or learnt (mostly UK))

1. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
2. To attend a course or other educational activity.
   • 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe

     For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.

3. To make use of a bad experience.
4. To improve, maybe used in an order.

   Learn how to do it better!

5. To be studying.
6. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

   He just learned that he will be sacked.

[edit] Synonyms

• study

[edit] Antonyms

• forget
• teach

[edit] Derived terms

• learned
• learner

[edit] Usage notes

• See other, dated and regional, sense of learn below.

[edit] Translations

[edit] Etymology 2

From Old English læran (“‘to teach’”)

[edit] Verb

to learn (third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or learnt)

1. (now regional slang or dialectal) To teach.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, Le Morte Darthur, Book VIII:

     And there Tramtryste lerned hir to harpe, and she began to have a grete fantasy unto hym.

[edit] Usage notes

• Now often considered non-standard.

[edit] Derived terms

• learned

[edit] Related terms

• larn
• lore

[edit] References

• learn in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911
• learn in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• Family Word Finder Readers Digest Association Inc. NY 1975

[edit] Anagrams

• Alphagram: aelnr
• Laren
• renal

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[edit] Scots

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /lɛrn/

[edit] Verb

tae learn (third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learnin, simple past learnt, past participle learnt)

1. To learn.
2. To teach.