learned
IPA: ɫˈɝnd
noun
- A surname.
adjective
- Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated.
- (law, formal) A courteous description used in various ways to refer to lawyers or judges.
- Scholarly, exhibiting scholarship.
- Derived from experience; acquired by learning.
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Examples of "learned" in Sentences
- Lessons are learned, then forgotten.
- It is an epithet of the learned and wise.
- That numbing feeling tends to create what we call learned helplessness.
- But the people were learned enough to sift through the vibrant knowledge.
- I pursued my study in depth and learned the give and take of disputation.
- They _desert'_ their friends. learned He _learned_ (one syllable) to sing.
- He learned to write in a handsome script and studied technical draftsmanship.
- Claude Dancer: When I was overseas during the war, Your Honor, I learned a French word.
- A verb may consist of two, three, or even four words; as, _is learning, may be learned, could have been learned_.
- And during those forty years, we have learned things about Rupture which no one _else_ has _ever learned_ -- we have gained knowledge which is exclusively our _own_.
- Their new album, Tivoli (which I've learned is Swedish for Carnival) is out soon on on Werk Discs (who I believe is London-based) - supposedly you can purchase the disc from their compatriots at North South Divide, but I couldn't find the CD there ... so I'll point you to Boomkat for those of you in Europa.
- In conversation with a very learned Grecian on this subject, he seemed to consider because the _learned_ are constantly, and sometimes very capriciously, introducing _new_ words into our language, that such words as _en_ might be introduced for similar reasons, namely, mere fancy or caprice; on this subject I greatly differ from him: our aboriginal Saxon population has never corrupted our language nor destroyed its energetic character half so much as the mere classical scholar.