learn
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.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 25 August 2020 {7:33 PM}
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.
Sources: 1, 2.
Updated: 25 August 2020 {7:33 PM}