# learn

Pronunciation: say "LURN" US /lɝn/, UK /lɜːn/

## Verb

1. To gain knowledge of or skill in something through study, experience, or being taught.
   - Simple: To get knowledge or a skill by studying, practicing, or being taught.
   - _Most kids learn to ride a bike through trial and error._
   - _She learned calligraphy from an online course over the winter._
2. To come to know something or to become informed of it.
   - Simple: To find out about something, often by being told.
   - _Reporters learn of breaking events through trusted sources._
   - _He only learned about the merger after it was announced publicly._
4. To teach someone, used now only in non-standard speech and dialects. *(dialectal)*
   - Simple: To teach someone something, used in non-standard English.
   - _Round here, the old folks learn the children to mend nets._
   - _He learned me everything I know about farming._

## Noun

3. The act or process of learning something.
   - Simple: The act of getting new knowledge or skills.
   - _Reviewers say the board game is an easy learn but takes months to master, which is part of its charm._
   - _Switching to the new software turned out to be a longer learn than the team expected, so the launch slipped a week._

## Origin

This comes from Middle English lernen ("to learn," and also "to teach"), from Old English leornian, and further back through Proto-Germanic *lizaną to the Proto-Indo-European root *leys- ("track, furrow, trace"). It is related to German lernen and Dutch words for learning, and is connected to the English words lore and lear.

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/learn (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).