learned

[lur-nid, lurnd]

adjective

1. having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite.

   learned professors.

2. connected or involved with the pursuit of knowledge, especially of a scholarly nature.

   a learned journal.

3. of or showing learning learn or knowledge; well-informed.

   learned in the ways of the world.

4. acquired by experience, study, etc..

   learned behavior.

learned

/ ˈlɜːnɪd /

adjective

1. having great knowledge or erudition

2. involving or characterized by scholarship

3. (prenominal) a title applied in referring to a member of the legal profession, esp to a barrister

   my learned friend

Other Word Forms

• learnedly adverb
• learnedness noun
• half-learned adjective
• half-learnedly adverb
• overlearned adjective
• overlearnedly adverb
• overlearnedness noun
• well-learned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of learned¹

First recorded in 1300–50, learned is from the Middle English word lerned. See learn, -ed ²

Example Sentences

A look at history going back to Hamilton’s time reveals there is no simple, static relationship between capitalism and democracy in America, but there are lessons to be learned by understanding the dynamic between them.

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OpenAI plans to design its own graphics processing units, or GPUs, which will allow it to integrate what it has learned from developing powerful artificial-intellligence models into the hardware that underpins future systems.

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The Dodgers learned that the hard way this summer.

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“Report, then think, then write,” she learned from her editor there.

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She pours everything she learned from being raised in this city back into the store, and in turn, its surroundings.

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Related Words

• accomplished 
• educated 
• scholarly 
• scientific 
• studied 
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