learning

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Etymology

Corresponding to learn + -ing, from Middle English lerninge, used in all modern senses (act of learning; accumulated knowledge; thing learned).

Pronunciation

  • (General American) IPA(key): /ˈlɝnɪŋ/
  • (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈlɜːnɪŋ/
  • Hyphenation: learn‧ing
  • (file)
  • Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)nɪŋ

Noun

learning (usually uncountable, plural learnings)

  1. (uncountable) An act in which something is learned.
  2. (uncountable) Accumulated knowledge.
    The department head was also a scholar of great learning.
  3. (countable, proscribed) Something that has been learned.
    • 2007 April 5, Stuart Elliott, “Online Experiment for Print Magazine”, in New York Times:
      “We’ll take the learnings and apply them to the rest of our business.”

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learning

  1. present participle and gerund of learn
    I'm learning to ride a unicycle.
    • 2024 May 4, Mat Gallagher, “I tried Mercedes’ new autonomous driving in busy city streets – it's mind-blowing”, in T3:
      The system is still learning though, and will improve how it handles situations thanks to crowd-sourced data from across the Mercedes network.


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