Meaning of learn in English

learn

verb

uk/lɜːn/ us/lɝːn/ learned or UK also learnt | learned or UK also learnt

A1 [ I or T ]

to get new knowledge or skill in a subject or activity:

They learn Russian at school.

"Can you drive?" "I'm learning."

learn about I've learned a lot about computers since I started work here.

[ + to infinitive ] I'm learning to play the piano.

[ + question word + to infinitive ] First you'll learn (how) to use this machine.

B1 [ T ]

to make yourself remember a piece of writing by reading it or repeating it many times:

I don't know how actors manage to learn all those lines.

learn something by heart We were told to learn Portia's speech by heart (= be able to say it from memory) for homework.

B2 [ I or T ]

to start to understand that you must change the way you behave:

She'll have to learn that she can't have everything she wants.

learn to She soon learned not to contradict him.

learn from your mistakes He's not afraid to learn from his mistakes.

B1 [ I or T ]

to be told facts or information that you did not know:

learn of We were all shocked to learn of his death.

[ + (that) ] I later learned (that) the message had never arrived.

learn about I only learned about the accident later.

Idioms

learn a/your lesson

learn to live with something

(Definition of learn from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

learn | American Dictionary

learn

verb [ I/T ]

us/lɜrn/

to get knowledge or understanding of facts or ideas or of how to do things:

[ T ] We’re learning algebra.

[ I ] He’s not much of a cook, but he’s learning.

[ I ] Parents learned of the budget cuts in a letter from the school superintendent.

[ I ] I hope you’ll learn from your mistakes .

[ + to infinitive ] I learned to drive when I was 16.

[ + question word ] First you must learn how to use this computer.

learner

noun [ C ] us/ˈlɜr·nər/

a fast/slow learner

Idioms

learn a lesson

learn something the hard way

(Definition of learn from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of learn

learn

Review the lessons learned report, if one wascompleted, to determine how agency officials assessed the contracting process.

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One such demand was that a method developed for understanding the particular had to be modified for learning about the general.

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What "good lessons" women may have learned from romance fiction remains a question.

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He had learned his lesson and would not repeat the mistake, even though the problem of crime continued to plague the regime.

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The review list showed all the rules that we learned.

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Instead, differences in learning mechanisms are defined paradigmatically in terms of operations and behavioral outcomes.

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I leave to myself, that is to learning, nothing at all.

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He could have found this out by learning what the experts, theologians, say, or those who know, mean by the name, semantically speaking.

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By 1659 he had more than learned his lesson.

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In order to standardize the amount of exposure to the items, learning was measured over a fixed number of four trials.

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The advantage for distinctive items was maintained when they were well learned and established in long-term memory.

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Pilot work showed that it was not feasible to measure rate of learning in terms of the number of trials to criterion.

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We have first solved a benchmark model without learning behavior.

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Although we could, in principle, allow for families of rules that involve learning on the part of the policymaker, we abstract from this issue here.

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Can you tell us what lessons you have learned from your experience as chief economist and head of research of an international financial organization?

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in Chinese (Traditional)

學，學習, 記住，記, 開始醒悟，開始明白…

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