to learn
Gain new understanding
To learn is to gain knowledge or skill through study, experience, or being taught.
You learn a language, learn to drive, learn from mistakes.
The word covers both acquiring information I learned she'd moved to Boston and developing abilities He's learning piano.
To learn something the hard way is to gain understanding through painful experience rather than instruction.
- studyDeliberate learning effort
- absorbTake in fully
- pick upLift and take
- discoverFind something unknown
- understandGrasp the meaning
grasp · master · memorize · practice · trial and error · knowledge · student · quick study · lesson · teacher · classroom · curious · realize · enlighten · acquire · skill · training · apprentice