learned

Meaning

1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
2. A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
3. Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.

Frequency

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ˈlɜːnɪd/

Etymology

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

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.