learning

learning
I
(New American Roget's College Thesaurus)
Acquisition of knowledge
Nouns
1. learning, assimilation, absorption; erudition, knowledge; humanity, wisdom, breeding; study, education, schooling; reading, inquiry, contemplation; apprenticeship, pupilage, tutelage, novitiate, matriculation. Informal, school of hard knocks. See school.
2. learner, beginner, novice, neophyte, adherent; student, scholar, pupil, schoolboy or -girl; robin, bluebird, cardinal; apprentice, plebe, abecedarian; disciple, follower, apostle; self-taught man or woman. Slang, cereb, swot, gomer, geek.
3. class, master class, learning curve, open classroom; tracking.
4. scientist, savant, scholar, pedant, pedagogue; man of learning (see knowledge); intelligentsia, literati, clerisy; bookworm, egghead. Informal, longhair.
Verbs
1. learn, acquire knowledge, pick up, ascertain, hear (of), discover; come to one's knowledge; master; learn by rote or heart, commit to memory, memorize, absorb, assimilate, digest, fix in one's mind; acquaint oneself; sit at the feet of; learn by experience, learn the hard way (see difficulty); remember, bear in mind, bethink oneself; glean; learn a lesson, run through; serve one's apprenticeship. Informal, learn the ropes; get the hang or knack of, catch on. Slang, get wise.
2. study, lucubrate, burn the midnight oil, keep one's nose in a book, cram. Informal, hit the books, crack a book, bone up. Slang, grind.
Adjectives — learned, cultured, knowledgeable, erudite, literate; schooled, well-read, well-informed, wise; bookish; studious, scholastic, scholarly, academic, industrious; teachable, malleable.
Phrases — never too old to learn; there is no royal road to learning; a burnt child dreads the fire; experience is the best teacher.
Quotations — Better build schoolrooms for "the boy" than cells and gibbets for "the man" (Eliza Cook), Studies serve for delight, for ornament, and for ability (Sir Francis Bacon), If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants (Isaac Newton), If you think education is expensive, try ignorance (Derek Bok), A little learning is a dangerous thing (Alexander Pope), They know enough who know how to learn (Henry Adams), I find no other pleasure than learning (Inigo Jones).
Antonyms, see teaching.
II
(Roget's IV) n.
Syn. knowledge, lore, scholarship, training; see education 1 , knowledge 1 .
See Synonym Study at knowledge .
III
(Roget's 3 Superthesaurus) n.
education, schooling, enlightenment, study, edification, erudition, research, training, scholarship, cultivation, inquiry, questioning, growth, knowledge. ''Dust shaken out of a book and into an empty skull.''—Ambrose Bierce. ''A companion on a journey to a strange country . . . a strength inexhaustible. —Hitopadesa.
IV
(Roget's Thesaurus II) noun Known facts, ideas, and skill that have been imparted: education, erudition, instruction, knowledge, scholarship, science. See KNOWLEDGE.

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