Learn

Verb

 * 1) To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
 * 2) To attend a course or other educational activity.
 * 3) * 1719, Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe
 * For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.
 * 1) To make use of a bad experience.
 * 2) To improve, maybe used in an order.
 * Learn how to do it better!
 * 1) To be studying.
 * 2) To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
 * He just learned that he will be sacked.

Synonyms

 * study

Antonyms

 * forget
 * teach

Derived terms

 * learned
 * learner

Verb

 * 1)  To teach.
 * 2) * 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.
 * 1) * 2002, The Simpsons, (1 Feb 2002) Lisa's thoughts.
 * That'll learn him to bust my tomater.

Derived terms

 * learned

Related terms

 * larn
 * lore

Adverbs for Learn
aptly; brilliantly; instinctively; normally, precociously; scientifically; pedagogically.

Thesaurus
absorb, appreciate, apprehend, ascertain, assimilate, attend classes, attend school, awaken to, be informed, be with one, become acquainted with, become alive to, become aware of, become conscious of, broaden the mind, catch, catch on, chance upon, come to know, commit to memory, comprehend, conceive, cram the mind, determine, dig, digest, discover, fathom, find, find out, find out about, follow, gain knowledge, gather, get, get hep to, get hold of, get it, get next to, get the drift, get the idea, get the picture, get wise to, go into training, go to school, grasp, have, have it reported, have it taped, hear of, hit upon, ken, know, learn about, learn by heart, load the mind, master, memorize, pick up information, read, read with, realize, receive instruction, savvy, see the light, seize, seize the meaning, sense, serve an apprenticeship, take, take in, take lessons, train, twig, uncover, undergo schooling, understand

Etymology 1
lernen: < leornian:. Compare lernen:.

Etymology 2
From læran:. Compare German lehren.

Verb

 * Afrikaans:
 * Amharic:
 * Anglo-Norman:
 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Belarusian: учыцца
 * Bulgarian:
 * Catalan: aprendre
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Czech: se
 * Danish:
 * Dutch:
 * Esperanto:
 * Estonian: ,
 * Faroese:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * Old French:
 * Georgian: სწავლა, შესწავლა
 * German:
 * Greek: μαθαίνω
 * Hebrew:
 * Hindi: (sīkhnā)
 * Hungarian:
 * Icelandic: ,
 * Ido: lernar
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: apprender
 * Indonesian:
 * Interlingua: apprender


 * Irish:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese: ,
 * Khmer: រៀន
 * Korean:
 * Kurdish:
 * Lao: ຮຽນ
 * Latin: disco, scisco, rescisco
 * Latvian: mācīties
 * Lojban:
 * Norwegian:
 * Persian:, آموختن
 * Polish: uczyć się
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian:
 * Russian:, учить
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Slovak: učiť sa
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: lära sig
 * Telugu: నేర్చుకొను (nErchukonu)
 * Thai: ,
 * Ukrainian: учитися
 * Urdu: (sīkhnā)
 * Vietnamese:,  học tập
 * Volapük: lärnön
 * West Frisian:
 * Urdu: (sīkhnā)
 * Vietnamese:,  học tập
 * Volapük: lärnön
 * West Frisian:


 * Arabic:
 * Armenian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:, ,  ,
 * Czech: se
 * Danish:
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,


 * French: faire des études,
 * German: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:
 * Latin: disco
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * West Frisian:


 * Czech: se
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * Italian:


 * Kurdish:
 * Latin: disco
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Czech: se
 * Estonian: arenema
 * Finnish:


 * Latin: disco
 * Portuguese:
 * Scottish Gaelic:


 * Catalan: estudiar
 * Czech: se
 * Danish: ,
 * Dutch: ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish: ,
 * Indonesian:
 * Italian: ,
 * Japanese:


 * Kurdish: ,
 * Latin: studo, disco
 * Polish: uczyć się
 * Portuguese: ,
 * Romanian: învăța, studiu
 * Russian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * West Frisian:


 * Czech:
 * Danish: erfare
 * Dutch:, , ,
 * Estonian:
 * Finnish:
 * German:
 * Italian:


 * Latin: disco, scisco, rescisco
 * Old English:
 * Portuguese:, ficar sabendo
 * Romanian:
 * Scottish Gaelic:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: få reda på
 * Telugu: తెలుసుకొను (telusukonu)
 * West Frisian:


 * : mëson
 * : učiti
 * : aprendre
 * : učiti
 * : ñembo'euka
 * : belajar
 * : 배우다
 * : discere


 * : mācīties
 * : mokytis
 * : (tacimbi)
 * : ako
 * Cyrillic: учити
 * Roman: učiti
 * : učiti se, izučiti (3)
 * : nhembo'e (thing learned indicated with postposition esé (r-))
 * : lära sig (1,4,5)
 * : lärnön
 * : lärnön

Anagrams

 * Laren
 * renal

Verb

 * 1) To.
 * 2) To teach.