# learning

Pronunciation: say "LUR-ning" US /ˈlɝnɪŋ/, UK /ˈlɜːnɪŋ/

## Verb

1. Present participle and gerund of learn. — present participle and gerund of learn
   - Simple: Present participle of learn. Use this form for something happening now or for the activity itself.
   - _He is learning the guitar from an online teacher._
   - _Learning from your own mistakes is part of growing up._

## Noun

2. An act or process in which knowledge or a skill is gained.
   - Simple: The act of gaining knowledge or a new skill.
   - _Learning accelerates when students connect new ideas to what they already know._
   - _The slow learning of a complex craft can take many years of careful practice._
3. Knowledge accumulated over time, especially through study.
   - Simple: Knowledge that someone has gained and built up over many years.
   - _A scholar of immense learning, she could quote texts in six languages._
   - _The monastery preserved classical learning through the troubled centuries._
4. A particular thing that has been learned; a lesson or insight gained from experience.
   - Simple: A fact or lesson that someone has learned from doing something.
   - _The biggest learning from the failed launch was to test the product earlier._
   - _She summarized the workshop's main learnings in a short memo._

## Origin

This comes from Middle English lernyng, from Old English leornung ("learning, study"), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu, equivalent to learn plus -ing. It is cognate with Old Saxon lernunga and German Lernung.

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