To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
It's time Dad learned (how) to change the oil in the car.
To attend a course or other educational activity.
For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.
To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
learn from one's mistakes
The act of learning something.
I did a quick learn of the place by watching the people shuffle in. There was a healthy mix of beautiful and freaky people, who shared a few common denominators[…]
A surname from Scottish Gaelic.
From Middle English lernen (“to learn", also, "to teach"”), from Old English leornian (“to learn", rarely also, "to teach”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnōn, from Proto-Germanic *lizaną, from Proto-I...
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