learning

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   The process of gaining knowledge or skills.

   Online courses have made learning more flexible.

2. 2
   noun

   Knowledge gained through study; deep education.

   The professor was a scholar of great learning.

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.

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