learn

Meaning

1. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
2. To attend a course or other educational activity.
3. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
4. To study.
5. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.

study

find out

acquire knowledge

come to know

be taught

obtain information

be aware

be informed

be trained

find

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get a line

retain

get word

make sick

take lessons

take lessons in

catch on to

teach oneself

receive education

be in school

have further education

enquire into

study at school

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become aware of

find out about

get accustomed

become accustomed to

become acquainted

become conscious of

be educated

check up on

get used to

go to school

know about

know how

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Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɜːn/

From Middle English lernen, from Old English leornian, from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnōn, from Proto-Germanic *lizaną, from Proto-Indo-European *(le-)lóys-e, stative from the root *leys- (“track, furrow, trace, trail”). Cognate with German lernen (“to learn”). See also lore.