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learning

Noun CEFR B1 Frequent
ˈlɝnɪŋ

Definitions

  1. Learn.
  2. An act in which something is learned.
  3. apprenticeship
  4. antagonism to learning, education, and the educated, expressed in literature in a conscious display of simplicity, earthiness, even colorful semi-literacy. — anti-intellectual, n., adj.
  5. Accumulated knowledge.
  6. Something that has been learned.
  7. the process of teaching oneself. — autodidact, n.
    n
  8. men of learning as a class or collectively; the intelligentsia or literati.
  9. the art or science of teaching.
  10. the state of being devoted to something that is taught. — doctrinist, n.
    n
  11. a person who supports or uses the system of kindergarten education developed by Friedrich Froebel, German educational reformer. Also Froebelian.
  12. a student in a gymnasium, a form of high school in Europe. See also athletics.
  13. (in Europe) a name given to a high school at which students prepare for university entrance.
  14. men of letters or learning; scholars as a group.
  15. a scholarly or literary person; one of the literati.

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Examples

The department head was also a scholar of great learning.”
““We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.””

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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