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Synonyms:

ascertain, detect, discover, get, master, pick up.

Related Words:

determine, enroll, grind, gain, grasp, hear, imbibe, matriculate, memorize, peruse, prepare, read, receive, review, see, study, understand.

Antonym:

unlearn.

Synonym Study 1 (Dictionary.com):

Learn, ascertain, detect, and discover imply adding to one's store of facts. 

To learn is to add to one's knowledge or information: 
to learn a language. 

To ascertain is to verify facts by inquiry or analysis: 
to ascertain the truth about an event. 

To detect implies becoming aware of something that had been obscure, secret, or concealed: 
to detect a flaw in reasoning.

To discover is used with objective clauses as a synonym of learn in order to suggest that the new information acquired is surprising to the learner: 
I discovered that she had been married before.

Synonym Study 2 (Merriam-Webster):

Discover, ascertain, determine, unearth, and learn mean to find out what one did not previously know. 

Discover may apply to something requiring exploration or investigation or to a chance encounter:
discovered the source of the river. 

Ascertain implies effort to find the facts or the truth proceeding from awareness of ignorance or uncertainty:
attempts to ascertain the population of the region. 

Determine emphasizes the intent to establish the facts definitely or precisely: 
unable to determine the origin of the word. 

Unearth implies bringing to light something forgotten or hidden:
unearth old records. 

Learn may imply acquiring knowledge with little effort or conscious intention (as by simply being told) or it may imply study and practice:
I learned her name only today learning Greek.

Origin:

First recorded before 900; Middle English lernen, Old English leornian “to learn, read, ponder” (cognate with German lernen ); akin to lesan “to glean” (cognate with German lesen “to read”). See lear. British dictionary: Old English leornian; related to Old High German lirnen. —Dictionary.com. // 

First Known Use of learn: before the 12th century. History and Etymology for learn: Middle English lernen, from Old English leornian; akin to Old High German lernēn to learn, Old English last footprint, Latin lira furrow, track. —Merriam-Webster.

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Updated: 25 August 2020 {7:33 PM}
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