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learned
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
learned
adjective
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
learned the hard way
▪ He learned the hard way about the harsh reality of the boxing world.
learned this lesson the hard way
▪ Make sure you put the baby’s diaper on before you start feeding her. I learned this lesson the hard way.
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ NOUN
behaviour
▪ Such learned behaviour is heavily ingrained in many of us.
▪ This learned behaviour, or social inheritance, of any society is called its culture.
▪ By contrast, learned behaviour requires experience and practice.
▪ However, the range and complexity of learned behaviour in humans is far greater than in any other species.
friend
▪ Does my right hon. and learned Friend think that such communication would have contributed to avoiding the accident?
▪ The report that my right hon. and learned Friend the Secretary of State published yesterday is extremely important.
▪ Mr. Bowis My right hon. and learned Friend will recall the bomb explosion a month ago on the track in my constituency.
▪ My right hon. and learned Friend the Solicitor-General will be dealing with the question of contempt.
▪ The hon. Gentleman's hon. and learned Friend has as much right to express his views as the hon. Gentleman had.
▪ Here I reflect very much the comments of my right hon. and learned Friend.
▪ What my noble and learned friends have said will, however, enable me to express myself quite shortly.
gentleman
▪ Mr. Clark I am grateful for what the hon. and learned Gentleman has said.
▪ I refer the hon. and learned Gentleman to the reply that I gave a few moments ago.
▪ The hon. and learned Gentleman must not make a speech that he might make if I were to call him.
▪ I can not understand why the hon. and learned Gentleman says that it is not so.
▪ Also, when does the right hon. and learned Gentleman hope to fill the post of Director of Public Prosecutions?
▪ Mr. Lilley I can tell the House why the hon. and learned Gentleman is wrong.
journal
▪ She laid aside all the incomprehensible extracts from learned journals and boiled herself an egg.
▪ They appeared to be pages of an off-print of an article in a learned journal.
judge
▪ The learned judge held not, for the reason that no one is entitled to profit from his own wrong.
▪ For these reasons, I would allow the appeal with costs, and restore the order of the learned judge.
man
▪ Nevertheless, he was certainly a learned man.
▪ The learned men of that school were known as doctors plus epithets: the Angelic Doctor, the Sublime Doctor and so forth.
member
▪ The hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West is not on trial.
▪ I have acknowledged the great damage done to the hon. and learned Member for Leicester, West.
▪ I am dealing with the right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East.
▪ That is precisely what the right hon. and learned Member for Surrey, East described a year ago.
▪ There has been some administrative devolution, to which the hon. and learned Member for Fife, North-East referred.
▪ The right hon. and learned Member for Monklands, East talked about our record.
▪ The right hon. and learned Member for Warley, West first discussed the causes of crime.
profession
▪ In contrast to Hocazade, Civizade came from a very favourable background from the point of view of the learned profession.
▪ Besides muderrises and kadis, one other group within the learned profession deserves brief mention, namely the muftis.
society
▪ He held many offices in learned societies.
▪ Other members include industrial concerns, private companies, hospitals, learned societies and organisations in the museums, arts and media.
▪ She had come rather out of her way and now walked back along a square where a learned society had its premises.
▪ When they were settled down with their drinks she asked him about the learned society.
PHRASES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
my learned friend
sb has learned their lesson
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ It's true that art critics aren't as learned as art-historians in these matters.
▪ The old professor was obviously a very learned man.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Learned

Learned \Learn"ed\ (l[~e]rn"[e^]d), a. Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.

The learnedlover lost no time.
--Spenser.

Men of much reading are greatly learned, but may be little knowing.
--Locke.

Words of learned length and thundering sound.
--Goldsmith.

The learned, learned men; men of erudition; scholars. -- Learn"ed*ly, adv. Learn"ed*ness, n.

Every coxcomb swears as learnedly as they.
--Swift.

Learned

Learn \Learn\ (l[~e]rn), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Learned (l[~e]rnd), or Learnt (l[~e]rnt); p. pr. & vb. n. Learning.] [OE. lernen, leornen, AS. leornian; akin to OS. lin[=o]n, for lirn[=o]n, OHG. lirn[=e]n, lern[=e]n, G. lernen, fr. the root of AS. l[=ae]ran to teach, OS. l[=e]rian, OHG. l[=e]ran, G. lehren, Goth. laisjan, also Goth lais I know, leis acquainted (in comp.); all prob. from a root meaning, to go, go over, and hence, to learn; cf. AS. leoran to go. Cf. Last a mold of the foot, lore.]

  1. To gain knowledge or information of; to ascertain by inquiry, study, or investigation; to receive instruction concerning; to fix in the mind; to acquire understanding of, or skill; as, to learn the way; to learn a lesson; to learn dancing; to learn to skate; to learn the violin; to learn the truth about something. ``Learn to do well.''
    --Is. i. 17.

    Now learn a parable of the fig tree.
    --Matt. xxiv. 3

  2. 2. To communicate knowledge to; to teach. [Obs.]

    Hast thou not learned me how To make perfumes ?
    --Shak.

    Note: Learn formerly had also the sense of teach, in accordance with the analogy of the French and other languages, and hence we find it with this sense in Shakespeare, Spenser, and other old writers. This usage has now passed away. To learn is to receive instruction, and to teach is to give instruction. He who is taught learns, not he who teaches.

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
learned

"having knowledge gained by study," mid-14c., past participle adjective from learn (v.) in former transitive sense. Related: Learnedly; learnedness.

Wiktionary
learned

Etymology 1

  1. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated. v

  2. (context US English) (en-past of: learn): taught Etymology 2

    1. Derived from experience; acquired by learning. alt. (en-past of: learn) v

    2. (en-past of: learn)

learnèd

a. (context poetic English) (alternative spelling of learned English)

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WordNet
learned

  1. adj. having or showing profound knowledge; "a learned jurist"; "an erudite professor" [syn: erudite]

  2. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding; "an enlightened public"; "knowing instructors"; "a knowledgeable critic"; "a knowledgeable audience" [syn: enlightened, knowing, knowledgeable, lettered, well-educated, well-read]

  3. established by conditioning or learning; "a conditioned response" [syn: conditioned] [ant: unconditioned]

  4. acquired by learning; "learned skills"

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Gazetteer
Learned, MS -- U.S. town in Mississippi
Population (2000): 50
Housing Units (2000): 24
Land area (2000): 0.298770 sq. miles (0.773811 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.002658 sq. miles (0.006885 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.301428 sq. miles (0.780696 sq. km)
FIPS code: 39880
Located within: Mississippi (MS), FIPS 28
Location: 32.197843 N, 90.547259 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 39154
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Learned, MS
Learned
Wikipedia
Learned (disambiguation)

To be learned is to have much learning.

Learned may also refer to:

  • Learned (surname), an American surname
  • Learned Hand (1872–1961), American judge and judicial philosopher
  • Learned, Mississippi, United States, a town
  • Learned Pond, a body of water in Framingham, Massachusetts, United States
Learned (surname)

Learned is an American surname, and may refer to such notable people as:

  • Allan Learned, interim head football coach of the Virginia Tech Hokies for the end of the 1950 season
  • Amasa Learned (1750-1825), American politician
  • Ebenezer Learned (1728-1801), Continental Army general
  • Michael Learned (born 1939), American actress
  • Stanley Learned (1899–1975), third president of Phillips Petroleum Company
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Usage examples of "learned".

Anne learned a great deal about Jackie and her background, but the stories her biological mother told changed continually.

December 2003wrote another aardwolf reporting on the deadly conditions in Iraq, his political allegiances were quickly questioned by the White House, CIA officials later learned.

She learned from Abney that his lordship was in the library, and went there immediately.

He plans to stay another month so that he might learn all he can about the new brewery, though he has learned that Abraham is more than competent to see to its completion and seems anxious to be allowed to do so.

Emily gazed at the mythical goddess above her head, recalling the story of Diana and Actaeon, the arrogant young hunter who learned his lesson at the hands of the goddess.

Otis, a protege of Gridley, had been for Adams the shining example of the lawyer-scholar, learned yet powerful in argument.

As for his initial concern that the rigors of Congress might be too much for someone of such delicate appearance, Adams had learned better.

But with the doctor serving as interpreter, Adams learned to his astonishment that as a consequence of the American triumph at Saratoga, France and the United States had already agreed to an alliance.

On August 24, with the arrival of a packet of letters from Congress sent on by Franklin from Paris, Adams learned that his commission as peacemaker had been revoked and a new commission established.

Much had already transpired, as Adams learned from meetings with John Jay and a young American merchant named Matthew Ridley, whom Adams had met earlier in Holland and who, though he had no official role, seemed to know all that was going on.

When Jefferson learned that Adams was again to collaborate with Franklin at Paris, he was incredulous and in a coded letter to Madison offered a private view of Adams that was anything but an unqualified endorsement.

To make matters worse, Adams learned of further French seizures of American ships in the Caribbean and that by decrees issued in Paris, the Directory had, in effect, launched an undeclared war on American shipping everywhere.

Sally, who with her two small daughters was staying with Nabby, Adams learned for the first time that Charles, who had disappeared, was bankrupt, faithless, and an alcoholic.

When, a few weeks later, she learned that the baby had been named George Washington Adams, rather than John, she was not pleased.

Weeks later the Adamses learned of the death of another grandchild, Louisa Catherine Adams, who had been born in Russia little more than a year before.