Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having profound, often systematic knowledge; erudite.
- adjective Showing or characterized by such knowledge.
- adjective Acquired by learning or experience.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Possessed of the learning of schools; well furnished with literary and scientific knowledge; erudite: as, a learned man.
- Well acquainted; having much experience; skilful: often with in: as, learned in art.
- Pertaining to or manifesting learning; exhibiting the effect of instruction or learning; scholastic: as, learned accomplishments; a learned treatise.
- Synonyms and Learned, Scholarly, erudite, deep read. These words agree in representing the possession of a knowledge obtained by careful and protracted study, especially in books. They differ in that learned expresses depth and fullness in the knowledge, while scholarly expresses accuracy: as, a learned and scholarly treatise upon the use of the dative case. Learned expresses only the result of study; scholarly may express the result or the spirit: as, scholarly tastes. See
ignorant .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed
- adjective learned men; men of erudition; scholars.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
learn :taught - adjective Having much
learning , knowledgeable, erudite; highlyeducated . - verb Simple past tense and past participle of
learn . - adjective Derived from
experience ; acquired bylearning .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or showing profound knowledge
- adjective established by conditioning or learning
- adjective highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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They _desert'_ their friends. learned He _learned_ (one syllable) to sing.
Practical Grammar and Composition Thomas Wood
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A verb may consist of two, three, or even four words; as, _is learning, may be learned, could have been learned_.
Higher Lessons in English A work on english grammar and composition Brainerd Kellogg
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And during those forty years, we have learned things about Rupture which no one _else_ has _ever learned_ -- we have gained knowledge which is exclusively our _own_.
Cluthe's Advice to the Ruptured Cluthe Rupture Institute
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In conversation with a very learned Grecian on this subject, he seemed to consider because the _learned_ are constantly, and sometimes very capriciously, introducing _new_ words into our language, that such words as _en_ might be introduced for similar reasons, namely, mere fancy or caprice; on this subject I greatly differ from him: our aboriginal Saxon population has never corrupted our language nor destroyed its energetic character half so much as the mere classical scholar.
The Dialect of the West of England; Particularly Somersetshire James Jennings
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Their new album, Tivoli (which I've learned is Swedish for Carnival) is out soon on on Werk Discs (who I believe is London-based) - supposedly you can purchase the disc from their compatriots at North South Divide, but I couldn't find the CD there ... so I'll point you to Boomkat for those of you in Europa.
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Their new album, Tivoli (which I've learned is Swedish for Carnival) is out soon on on Werk Discs (who I believe is London-based) - supposedly you can purchase the disc from their compatriots at North South Divide, but I couldn't find the CD there ... so I'll point you to Boomkat for those of you in Europa.
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That numbing feeling tends to create what we call learned helplessness.
Arianna Huffington: A Chance to Break Through: How You Can Use Crises to Transform Your Life 2010
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That numbing feeling tends to create what we call learned helplessness.
A Chance to Break Through: How You Can Use Crises to Transform Your Life 2010
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Claude Dancer: When I was overseas during the war, Your Honor, I learned a French word.
Archive 2007-02-01 Ann Althouse 2007
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Claude Dancer: When I was overseas during the war, Your Honor, I learned a French word.
When one word is funnier than another. Ann Althouse 2007
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