book learning
noun
knowledge acquired by reading books, as distinguished from that obtained through observation and experience.
book-learned
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a word derived from
book learning.
Example Sentences
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For why should a blockhead have one in ten For prating so long like a book-learned sot Till pudding and dumpling burn to a pot?
From Time Magazine Archive
Not content with book-learned appreciation of foreign affairs, students will go abroad in their upperclass summer vacations to study and observe while living in "homes where only the foreign language is spoken."
From Time Magazine Archive
Well, Romeo takes a thought, an' goes to a friar, a kind o' priest, as was a very book-learned man, and asks if he can help him.
From Julia And Her Romeo: A Chronicle Of Castle Barfield From "Schwartz" by David Christie Murray by David Christie Murray
What Gilbert Stanning thought of it all is another matter; Joan with all her book-learned wisdom had not fathomed his character.
From To Love by Margaret Peterson
She is book-learned, and I am not; and she paints, and is a musician too and has all the accomplishments.
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by William Gilmore Simms
