Meaning
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- Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
- A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
- Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
Synonyms
knowledgeable person
well informed
learned person
knowlegeable
deep-read
highly-educated
self-instructed
well-schooled
thoroughly proficient in
medieval Schoolman
carefully thought out
schlarly
enlighntened
Frequency
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈlɜːnɪd/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle English lerned, lernd, lernyd, equivalent to learn + -ed, which replaced the earlier lered (“taught”), from Old English (ġe)lǣred, past participle of lǣran (“to teach”). Learn formerly had the meaning “to teach”, which is now found only in nonstandard speech, as well as its standard meaning of “to learn”.
New
learn
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- To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
- To attend a course or other educational activity.
- To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
- To study.
- To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
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