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learned

[lur-nid, lurnd]

adjective

  1. having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite.

    learned professors.

  2. connected or involved with the pursuit of knowledge, especially of a scholarly nature.

    a learned journal.

  3. of or showing learning learn or knowledge; well-informed.

    learned in the ways of the world.

  4. acquired by experience, study, etc..

    learned behavior.



learned

/ ˈ±ôɜ˲Ôɪ»å /

adjective

  1. having great knowledge or erudition

  2. involving or characterized by scholarship

  3. (prenominal) a title applied in referring to a member of the legal profession, esp to a barrister

    my learned friend

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Other 51³Ô¹Ï Forms

  • learnedly adverb
  • learnedness noun
  • half-learned adjective
  • half-learnedly adverb
  • overlearned adjective
  • overlearnedly adverb
  • overlearnedness noun
  • well-learned adjective
  • ˈ±ô±ð²¹°ù²Ô±ð»å±ô²â adverb
  • ˈ±ô±ð²¹°ù²Ô±ð»å²Ô±ð²õ²õ noun
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51³Ô¹Ï History and Origins

Origin of learned1

First recorded in 1300–50, learned is from the Middle English word lerned. See learn, -ed 2
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As much as people learned to manage him — to save the country from his worst impulses — during his first term, everyone now knows they can manipulate him for their own ends in the second.

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East Riding of Yorkshire Council said it was vitally important children learned to cross the road safely, without any distractions.

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She told BBC Sport soon after the incident in Dubai that it "could have been dealt with better" but that lessons have been learned.

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"Being self-taught, I learned to distrust anything I hadn't figured out myself."

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The BBC has since learned that two of the premises visited in Portsmouth were not signed up to a self-exclusion scheme at all.

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