Definition of "learn"

learn¹

/lɜːn/

verb
third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or learnt
1. To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
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  Every day I learn more about this great city. Audio (US)(file)
  2016, VOA Learning English (public domain)
2. To attend a course or other educational activity.
  Quotations
  For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.
  1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719
3. To gain knowledge from a bad experience so as to improve.
4. To study.
5. To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
noun
plural learns
1. The act of learning something
  Quotations
  I did a quick learn of the place by watching the people shuffle in. There was a healthy mix of beautiful and freaky people, who shared a few common denominators […]
  2003, Gregory A. Raymer, The Woodie Chronicles: My Journey Through America on the road t recovery in a 1949 Woodie Wagon

learn²

/lɜːn/

verb
third-person singular simple present learns, present participle learning, simple past and past participle learned or learnt
1. (now only in non-standard speech and dialects) To teach.
  Quotations
  And whan she had serched hym she fond in the bottome of his wound that therin was poyson And soo she heled hym […] and therfore Tramtrist cast grete loue to la beale Isoud for she was at that tyme the fairest mayde and lady of the worlde And there Tramtryst lerned her to harpe and she beganne to haue grete fantasye vnto hym(please add an English translation of this quotation)
  1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter IX, in Le Morte Darthur, book VIII
  Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
  1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act IV, scene i]
  Have I not been Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn'd me how To make perfumes?
  1611 April (first recorded performance), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Cymbeline”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, [Act I, scene v]
  […] Take heed of filling their [i.e., children's] heads with VVhimzies, and unprofitable Notions; for this vvill ſooner learn them to be malepert and proud, than ſober and humble.
  1663 April 27 (Gregorian calendar), John Bunyan, “Touching Parents”, in Christian Behaviour; or The Fruits of True Christianity. […], London: […] F. Smith, […], page 56
  That'll learn him to bust my tomater.
  1993, The Simpsons, (18 Feb. 1993) Lisa's thoughts

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