learning
Roget category 539
4. Words relating to the intellectual faculties› 4.9. Modes of communication
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Learning
noun
learning —
acquisition of knowledge
etc.
490,
acquisition of skill
etc.
698 —
acquirement,
attainment —
edification,
scholarship,
erudition —
acquired knowledge,
lore,
wide information —
self-instruction —
study,
reading,
perusal —
inquiry
etc.
451.
apprenticeship,
prenticeship† —
pupilage,
pupilarity† —
tutelage,
novitiate,
matriculation.
docility
etc.
(willingness)
602 —
aptitude
etc.
698.
verb
learn —
acquire knowledge,
gain knowledge,
receive knowledge,
take in knowledge,
drink in knowledge,
imbibe knowledge,
pick up knowledge,
gather knowledge,
get knowledge,
obtain knowledge,
collect knowledge,
glean knowledge,
glean information,
glean learning.
acquaint oneself with,
master —
make oneself master of,
make oneself acquainted with —
grind,
cram —
get up,
coach up —
learn by heart,
learn by rote.
read,
spell,
peruse —
con over,
pore over,
thumb over —
wade through —
dip into —
run the eye over,
run the eye through —
turn over the leaves.
study —
be studious
etc.
adj..
[study intensely]
burn the midnight oil,
consume the midnight oil,
mind one's book —
cram.
go to school,
go to college,
go to the university —
matriculate —
serve an apprenticeship,
serve one's apprenticeship,
serve one's time —
learn one's trade —
be informed
etc.
527 —
be taught
etc.
537.
[stop going to school voluntarily (intransitive)]
drop out,
leave school,
quit school —
graduate —
transfer —
take a leave.
[cause to stop going to school (transitive)]
dismiss,
expel,
kick out of school.
[stop going to school involuntarily]
flunk out —
be dismissed
etc.
adjective
studious —
scholastic,
scholarly —
teachable —
docile
etc.
(willing)
602 —
apt
etc.
698,
industrious
etc.
682.
adverb
at one's books —
in statu pupillari [Lat.]
etc.
(learner)
541.
phrase
a lumber-house of books in every head"
[Pope];
ancora imparo! [Lat.] —
hold high converse with the mighty dead"
[Thomson];
lash'd into Latin by the tingling rod"
[Gay].
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