learning
//ˈlɝnɪŋ//
formalForms
- Plural
- learnings
Definitions
1.An act in which something is learned.
- He is learning how to drive a car.
- She is learning how to drive a car.
- I started learning Chinese last week.
2.Accumulated knowledge.
- The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
3.Something that has been learned.
- “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.”
1.present participle and gerund of learn
- I'm learning to ride a unicycle.
- The system is still learning though, and will improve how it handles situations thanks to crowd-sourced data from across the Mercedes network.
Frequency
Overall
Common· #1435
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Uncommon
- Academic
- Common
- Literature
- Rare
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Etymology
From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing.
Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung.