transitive verb learned or Chiefly Brit.learnt, learning learn′·ing

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

Etymology: ME lernen, to learn, teach < OE leornian (akin to Ger lernen) < WGmc *liznōn (akin to Goth laisjan, to teach) < IE base *leis-, track, furrow > L lira, furrow

intransitive verb

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