Learned
adj, name, verb ·Moderate ·High school level
Definitions
- 1 simple past and past participle of learn Canada, English, New-Zealand, US, dialectal, form-of, participle, past
- 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."
- 1 highly educated; having extensive information or understanding wordnet
- 2 established by conditioning or learning wordnet
- 3 having or showing profound knowledge wordnet
- 1 A surname.
Example
More examples"At the age of six he had learned to use the typewriter and told the teacher that he did not need to learn to write by hand."
Etymology
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”.
Past participle of learn.
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Data sourced from Wiktionary, WordNet, CMU, and other open linguistic databases. Updated March 2026.