learned Definition

learn
verb learnt, learned, learning

tr & intr
1. To be or become informed or to hear of something.

Thesaurus: understand, discern, discover.
tr & intr
2. To gain knowledge of or skill in something through study, teaching, instruction or experience.

Thesaurus: understand, assimilate, master, discover.
3. To get to know by heart; to memorize.
4. non-standard
To teach.

Idiom: learn how to do something

To gradually become skilful at it.

Idiom: learn the hard way

To become experienced in something only after having suffered some kind of setback or trouble.

Idiom: learn the ropes

colloq
To understand gradually how to do something.

Etymology: Anglo-Saxon leornian.

Phrasal Verb: learn about or of something

To hear about or of it.

Phrasal Verb: learn by or from something

To gain experience through it.

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learned
adj

1. Having great knowledge or learning, especially through years of study.

Thesaurus: wise, scholarly, adept, erudite, knowledgeable, informed, sage, lettered, well-read, academic; Antonym: untutored.
2. Referring or relating to learned people; scholarly.
3. Those who have great knowledge.

Form: the learned

Derivative: learnedly
adverb

Idiom: my learned friend

A title of courtesy used by lawyers or barristers to address each other in court.