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  1. transitive verb To gain knowledge, comprehension, or mastery of through experience or study.
  2. transitive verb To fix in the mind or memory; memorize: learned the speech in a few hours.
  3. transitive verb To acquire experience of or an ability or a skill in: learn tolerance; learned how to whistle.
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  • This learn is the ability to beat optically for that special does not mean to move procrastination and laziness moment. slowly, but to create mental in your life. state of mind, so that you have clarity over the day. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • I ordered a Bianca pizza which sounded safe but much to my dismay I discovered that I needed to learn the French word for prosciutto. —  TravelPod.com Recent Updates
  • Sixth-graders used the paintings to learn the French words for colors. —  News for InsideNova.com
  • The indians with whom we were staying were unusually intelligent; a number of books, including a large dictionary, lay upon the table, and the men, who crowded in upon us, were anxious to learn the English words for common things. —  In Indian Mexico (1908)
  • The beautiful Almah soon grew immensely interested in my efforts to learn, and also in the English words which I gave when I pointed to any object Thus I pointed to myself, and said "Man," then pointing to her, I said, "Woman." —  A Strange Manuscript Found in a Copper Cylinder
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  1. Middle English lernen, from Old English leornian; see leis-1 in Indo-European roots.

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  1. from Middle English lernen, lurnen, leornen, from Anglo-Saxon Icornian = Old Saxon linōn (for *lirnōn) = OFries. lirna, lerna = Old High German lirnēn, lērnēn, Middle High German lirnen, lernen, German lernen, learn; a secondary form, with formative -n, and change of orig. s to r (as in the related lear, lore), from the verb represented by Goth, leisan (preterit present lais), find out, learn: see lear.
 

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