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say it: lurn
learn is a verb meaning "gain knowledge or skills". It is pronounced /ˈlɝn/ — lurn. It carries 6 recorded senses.
get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally
“I learned that she has two grown-up children”
“I see that you have been promoted”
commit to memory; learn by heart
“Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for learn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.