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learner

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learn  (lûrn)
v. learned also learnt (lûrnt), learn·ing, learns
v.tr.
1. To gain knowledge, comprehension, or mastery of through experience or study.
2. To fix in the mind or memory; memorize: learned the speech in a few hours.
3.
a. To acquire experience of or an ability or a skill in: learn tolerance; learned how to whistle.
b. To become aware: learned that it was best not to argue.
4. To become informed of; find out. See Synonyms at discover.
5. Nonstandard To cause to acquire knowledge; teach.
6. Obsolete To give information to.
v.intr.
To gain knowledge, information, comprehension, or skill: learns quickly; learned about computers; learned of the job through friends.

[Middle English lernen, from Old English leornian; see leis-1 in Indo-European roots.]

learna·ble adj.
learner n.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.learnerlearner - someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs
individual, mortal, person, somebody, someone, soul - a human being; "there was too much for one person to do"
memoriser, memorizer - a person who learns by rote
quick study, sponge - someone able to acquire new knowledge and skills rapidly and easily; "she soaks up foreign languages like a sponge"
dweeb, grind, nerd, swot, wonk - an insignificant student who is ridiculed as being affected or boringly studious
tutee - learns from a tutor
2.learnerlearner - works for an expert to learn a trade
beginner, initiate, tiro, tyro, novice - someone new to a field or activity
printer's devil - an apprentice in a printing establishment

learner
Translations
Spanish learner [ˈləːnəʳ] nprincipiante m/f;
(BRIT) (also: learner driver) → conductor(a) m/f en prácticas see also L-plates

French learner [ˈləːnəʳ] learn ndébutant(e);
(Brit) (also: learner driver) → (conducteur/trice) débutant(e)

German learner [ˈləːnəʳ] learn (Brit) n (also: learner driver) → Fahrschüler(in) m(f)
Italian learner [ˈləːnəʳ] nprincipiante m/f; apprendista m/f;
he's a learner (driver) (BRIT) → sta imparando a guidare

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But with all the ardour of a neophyte and the pride of an apt learner I was at that time a great nautical casuist.
Whenever I have seen her in the company of men, she hath been all attention, with the modesty of a learner, not the forwardness of a teacher.
The germs of two valuable principles of education may also be gathered from the 'words of priests and priestesses:' (1) that true knowledge is a knowledge of causes (compare Aristotle's theory of episteme); and (2) that the process of learning consists not in what is brought to the learner, but in what is drawn out of him.
 
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