learning

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   Accumulated knowledge.

   The department head was also a scholar of great learning.

2. 2
   noun

   Something that has been learned.

   “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.”

3. 3
   verb

   present participle and gerund of learn

   I'm learning to ride a unicycle.

4. 4
   noun

   the cognitive process of acquiring skill or knowledge

5. 5
   noun

   profound scholarly knowledge

6. 6
   noun

   An act in which something is learned.

Etymology

From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung.