learned

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[edit] Etymology 1

From Middle English lerned, from Old English læran (to teach)

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learned

  1. Simple past tense and past participle of learn: taught

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learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)

  1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.iii:
      the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell [...].
    My learned friend (a formal, courteous description of a lawyer)
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  • This adjectival sense of this word is sometimes spelled with a grave accent. This is meant to indicate that the second ‘e’ is pronounced as /ɪ/, rather than being silent, as in the verb form. This usage is largely restricted to poetry and other works in which it is important that the adjective’s disyllabicity be made explicit.
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[edit] Etymology 2

From Old English leornian (to acquire knowledge)

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  • learnt (UK only; seldom used in American English)

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learned

  1. Simple past tense and past participle of learn.

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learned (comparative more learned, superlative most learned)

  1. Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
    Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct.
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