Lernwerd

learning

//ˈlɝnɪŋ//

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

formal

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Forms

Plural
learnings

Definitions

Noun

A word that identifies a person, place, thing, or idea.

  1. 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. 2.Accumulated knowledge.

    • The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
  3. 3.Something that has been learned.

    • “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.”

Verb

A word that expresses an action, state, or occurrence.

  1. 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.

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