(~s, experiencing, ~d)
Frequency: The word is one of the 700 most common words in English.
1.
Experience is knowledge or skill in a particular job or activity, which you have gained because you have done that job or activity for a long time.
He has also had managerial ~ on every level...
He’s counting on his mother to take care of the twins for him; she’s had plenty of ~ with them.
N-UNCOUNT: usu with supp
see also work ~
2.
Experience is used to refer to the past events, knowledge, and feelings that make up someone’s life or character.
I should not be in any danger here, but ~ has taught me caution...
She had learned from ~ to take little rests in between her daily routine...
N-UNCOUNT
3.
An ~ is something that you do or that happens to you, especially something important that affects you.
His only ~ of gardening so far proved immensely satisfying...
Many of his clients are unbelievably nervous, usually because of a bad ~ in the past.
N-COUNT: usu with supp
4.
If you ~ a particular situation, you are in that situation or it happens to you.
We had never ~d this kind of holiday before and had no idea what to expect...
VERB: V n
5.
If you ~ a feeling, you feel it or are affected by it.
Widows seem to ~ more distress than do widowers.
VERB: V n
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Experience is also a noun.
...the ~ of pain.
N-SING: the N of n