learning
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See learning in Webster's New World College Dictionary
noun
- the acquiring of knowledge or skill
- acquired knowledge or skill; esp., much knowledge in a special field
See learning in American Heritage Dictionary 4
(lûrˈnĭng)
noun- The act, process, or experience of gaining knowledge or skill.
- Knowledge or skill gained through schooling or study. See Synonyms at knowledge.
- Psychology Behavioral modification especially through experience or conditioning.
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Learning
See also knowledge; questioning; understanding.
1. the mode of teaching or of procedure in a private school, college, or university.
2. a tendency toward traditionalism or conventionalism in art, literature, music, etc.
3. any attitudes or ideas that are learned or scholarly but lacking in worldliness, common sense, or practicality. —academie, n., adj. —academist, n.
1. the philosophy of the school founded by Plato.
2. academicism. —academist, n. —academie, academical, adj.
antagonism to learning, education, and the educated, expressed in literature in a conscious display of simplicity, earthiness, even colorful semi-literacy. —anti-intellectual, n., adj.
autodidactics
the process of teaching oneself. —autodidact, n.
bluestockingism
1. the state of being a pedantic or literal-minded woman.
2. behavior characteristic of such a woman.
men of learning as a class or collectively; the intelligentsia or literati.
1. the practice of valuing literature, etc., primarily for its instructional content.
2. an inclination to teach or lecture others too much, especially by preaching and moralizing.
3. a pedantic, dull method of teaching. —didact, n. —didactic, adj.
the art or science of teaching.
doctrinism
the state of being devoted to something that is taught. —doctrinist, n.
1. British. aneducator.
2. a specialist in the theory and methods of education. Also called educationalist.
Froebelist
a person who supports or uses the system of kindergarten education developed by Friedrich Froebel, German educational reformer. Also Froebelian.
a student in a gymnasium, a form of high school in Europe. See also athletics.
(in Europe) a name given to a high school at which students prepare for university entrance.
men of letters or learning; scholars as a group.
literator
a scholarly or literary person; one of the literati.
1. the practice of reading, writing, or studying at night, especially by artificial light; “burning the midnight oil.”
2. the art or practice of writing learnedly. —lucubrator, n. —lucubrate, v.
opsimathy
Rare. 1. a late education.
2. the process of acquiring education late in life.
paideutics, paedeutics
the science of learning.
the science or art of teaching or education. —pedagogue, paedagogue, pedagog, n. —pedagogie, paedagogic, pedagogical, paedagogical, adj.
pedagogism
1. the art of teaching.
2. teaching that is pedantic, dogmatic, and formal.
1. the function or work of a teacher; teaching.
2. the art or method of teaching; pedagogics.
pedanticism
1. the character or practices of a pedant, as excessive display of learning.
2. a slavish attention to rules, details, etc; pedantry. —pedant, n. —pedantic, adj.
pedantocracy
rule or government by pedants; domination of society by pedants.
pedanticism, def. 2.
a school of higher education offering instruction in a variety of vocational, technical, and scientific subjects. —polytechnic, adj.
professorialism
the qualities, actions, and thoughts characteristic of a professor. —professorial, adj.
propaedeutics
the basic principles and rules preliminary to the study of an art or science. —propaedeutic, propaedeutical, adj.
in the Middle Ages, one of the two divisions of the seven liberal arts, comprising arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, and music. See also trivium.
objects, as real money, utensils, etc., used by a teacher in the classroom to illustrate aspects of daily life.
a scholar or person of great learning.
scholarch
a head of a school, especially the head of one of the ancient Athenian schools of philosophy.
1. Ancient Greece. a teacher of rhetoric, philosophy, etc.; hence, a learned person.
2. one who is given to the specious arguments often used by the sophists. —sophistic, sophistical, adj.
1. the teachings and ways of teaching of the Greek sophists.
2. specious or fallacious reasoning, as was sometimes used by the sophists.
Sorbonist
a doctor of the Sorbonne, of the University of Paris.
Ancient Greece. the master of a feast or symposium; hence, a person presiding over a banquet or formal discussion.
symposiast Rare.
a person participating in a symposium.
learned discussion of a particular topic. Also spelled symposion.
the study and description of arts and sciences from the point of view of their historical development, geographical, and ethnic distribution.
a person who forms theories or who specializes in the theory of a particular subject.
in the Middle Ages, one of the two divisions of the seven liberal arts, comprising logic, grammar, and rhetoric. See also quadrivium.
tyrology
Rare. a set of instructions for beginners.
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