transcription, транскрипция: [ lɜ:(r)n ]
( learns, learning, learned, learnt)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
Note: American English uses the form 'learned' as the past tense and past participle. British English uses either 'learned' or 'learnt'.
1.
If you learn something, you obtain knowledge or a skill through studying or training.
Their children were going to learn English...
He is learning to play the piano.
...learning how to use new computer systems...
Experienced teachers help you learn quickly.
VERB : V n , V to-inf , V wh , V , also V about n
• learn‧ing
...a bilingual approach to the learning of English.
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2.
If you learn of something, you find out about it.
It was only after his death that she learned of his affair with Betty...
It didn’t come as a shock to learn that the fuel and cooling systems are the most common causes of breakdown...
...the Admiral, who, on learning who I was, wanted to meet me.
= find out
VERB : V of n , V that , V wh
3.
If people learn to behave or react in a particular way, they gradually start to behave in that way as a result of a change in attitudes.
You have to learn to face your problem...
We are learning how to confront death instead of avoiding its reality.
VERB : V to-inf , V wh to-inf
4.
If you learn from an unpleasant experience, you change the way you behave so that it does not happen again or so that, if it happens again, you can deal with it better.
I am convinced that he has learned from his mistakes...
The company failed to learn any lessons from this experience.
VERB : V from n , V n from n
5.
If you learn something such as a poem or a role in a play, you study or repeat the words so that you can remember them.
He learned this song as an inmate at a Texas prison.
VERB : V n
6.
see also learned , learning
7.
to learn something the hard way: see hard
to learn the ropes: see rope