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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding
Example:
a knowledgeable audience
Synonyms:
knowing; knowledgeable; learned; lettered; well-educated; well-read
Classified under:
Similar:
educated (possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge))
Derivation:
learnedness (profound scholarly knowledge)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Established by conditioning or learning
Example:
a conditioned response
Synonyms:
conditioned; learned
Classified under:
Domain category:
psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Having or showing profound knowledge
Example:
an erudite professor
Synonyms:
erudite; learned
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
scholarly (characteristic of scholars or scholarship)
Derivation:
learnedness (profound scholarly knowledge)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb learn
Context examples:
While I improved in speech, I also learned the science of letters as it was taught to the stranger, and this opened before me a wide field for wonder and delight.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
O, I know it’s not evidence, Mr. Utterson; I’m book-learned enough for that; but a man has his feelings, and I give you my bible-word it was Mr. Hyde!
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
If you must go to him, see at least that he doth not turn you from the narrow path upon which you have learned to tread.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And then, when Harrison at last returned, I learned that my son was actually matched to fight in a public prize-battle.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
To help my memory, I formed all I learned into the English alphabet, and writ the words down, with the translations.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)
For two years, ever since Saturn entered your second house of earned income in December 2017, you’ve learned to do more with less.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
There's still much to be learned about how animals communicate with one another.
(Scent brings songbirds to the yard, National Science Foundation)
Brief Pain Inventory (BPI) How long has it been since you first learned your diagnosis?
(BPI - How Long Since Diagnosis, NCI Thesaurus)
A pattern of learned beliefs, values, and behavior that are shared within a group.
(Culture, NCI Thesaurus)
In addition, the program learned to differentiate between axons and dendrites, which are two specific types of extensions on neurons.
(Scientists teach computers how to analyze brain cells, National Institutes of Health)
