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Learned
//ˈlɝnɪd// adj, name, verb
Definitions
Adjective
- 1 Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
"the learned Merlin, well could tell, / Vnder what coast of heauen the man did dwell […]"
- 2 Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
"Everyday behavior is an overlay of learned behavior over instinct."
- 3 A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges. formal
- 4 Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
"But our limits will not permit us to discuss the many important and curious questions respecting the science of government, to which this learned work invites attention."
Adjective
- 1 highly educated; having extensive information or understanding wordnet
- 2 established by conditioning or learning wordnet
- 3 having or showing profound knowledge wordnet
Proper Noun
- 1 A surname.
Verb
- 1 simple past and past participle of learn Canada, English, New-Zealand, US, dialectal, form-of, participle, past
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English lerned, lernd, lernyd, equivalent to learn + -ed, which replaced the earlier lered (“taught”), from Old English (ġe)lǣred, past participle of lǣran (“to teach”). Learn formerly had the meaning “to teach”, which is now found only in nonstandard speech, as well as its standard meaning of “to learn”.
Etymology 2
Past participle of learn.
Etymology 3
Past participle of learn.
See also for "learned"
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