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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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
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
Oh fie! fie! a holy and a book-learned man.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
I still had hopes, for pride attends me still, Amidst the swains to show my book-learned skill; Around my fire an evening group to draw And tell of all I felt and all I saw.
From English Lands Letters and Kings Queen Anne and the Georges by Donald G. Mitchell
The great poet was no mere book-learned speculator.
From Aphorisms and Reflections from the Works of T. H. Huxley by T. H. Huxley
