learner

transitive verb learned or Chiefly Brit.learnt, learning

1. to get knowledge of (a subject) or skill in (an art, trade, etc.) by study, experience, instruction, etc.
2. to come to know: to learn what happened
3. to come to know how: to learn to swim
4. to fix in the mind; memorize
5. to acquire as a habit or attitude: to learn humility
6. to teach: now dialectal or otherwise nonstandard

intransitive verb

1. to gain knowledge or skill
2. to be informed; hear (of or about)