Book-learning

Synonyms for "book-learning" (3 found)

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Related words (1)

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Translations

7 translations across 7 languages.

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Finnish

1 entries
  • kirjaviisaus noun (knowledge acquired from books)

Icelandic

1 entries
  • bóklist noun (knowledge acquired from books)

Manx

1 entries
  • ynsagh-lioaragh noun (knowledge acquired from books)

Norwegian Bokmål

1 entries
  • boklist noun (knowledge acquired from books)

Old Norse

1 entries
  • bóklist noun (knowledge acquired from books)

Polish

1 entries
  • wiedza książkowa noun (knowledge acquired from books)

Portuguese

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  • conhecimento teórico noun (knowledge acquired from books)

Sample sentences

3 total sentences available.

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They are like some wise men, who, learning to know each planet by its Latin name, have quite forgotten such small heavenly constellations as Charity, Forbearance, Universal Love, and Mercy, […] and who, looking upward at the spangled sky, see nothing there but the reflection of their own great wisdom and book-learning.

Source: wiktionary

What you needed, I reckon, was less book learning and more bread-and-butter learning.

Source: wiktionary

That's what college ought to be for, instead of for turning out a lot of B.A.s, so chock full of book-learning and vanity that there ain't room for anything else.

Source: wiktionary

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