Lexic.us

Definition of Learned

1. Adjective. Having or showing profound knowledge. "An erudite professor"

2. Adjective. Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding. "A knowledgeable audience"

3. Adjective. Established by conditioning or learning. "A conditioned response"

Definition of Learned

1. a. Of or pertaining to learning; possessing, or characterized by, learning, esp. scholastic learning; erudite; well-informed; as, a learned scholar, writer, or lawyer; a learned book; a learned theory.

Definition of Learned

1. Verb. (past of learn#Etymology 2 learn): taught ¹

2. Adjective. Having much learning, knowledgeable, erudite; highly educated. ¹

3. Verb. (past of learn#Etymology 1 learn) ¹

4. Adjective. Derived from experience; acquired by learning. ¹

5. Adjective. (poetic) (alternative spelling of learned#Adjective learned) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Learned

1. learn [v] - See also: learn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Learned

lear leare leared leares learier leariest learing learn learn'd learn the hard way

learn the ropes learnabilities learnability learnable learne learned (current term) learned drive learned helplessness learned person learned profession

learned reaction learned response learned societies learned society learned the hard way learned treatise learned treatises learnedly learnedness learnednesses

Literary usage of Learned

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Hakluytus posthumus: Contayning a History of the World in Sea Voyages and by Samuel Purchas (1906)
"Observations gathered out of the First, Second, Third, and Fourth bookes of Josephus Acosta a learned Jesuite, touching the natural! historic of the Heavens ..."

2. Women and Economics: A Study of the Economic Relation Between Men and Women by Charlotte Perkins Gilman (1898)
"... Since we have learned to study the development of human life as we study the evolution of species throughout the animal kingdom, some peculiar phenomena ..."

3. Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets: With Critical Observations on Their by Samuel Johnson (1854)
"Birth and Parentage — Genius — Educated at Westminster and Cambridge— His learned Puerilities — His ..."

4. Lives of Twelve Good Men by John William Burgon (1889)
"MARTIN JOSEPH ROUTH: THE learned DIVINE. [AD—.] Who was ' reserved to report to a forgetful generation what was the Theology of ..."

5. Travels in Hungary, with a Short Account of Vienna in the Year 1793. by Robert Townson (1797)
"I. VIENNA—ITS learned INSTITUTIONS—PUBLIC LIBRARIES -^-CABINET OF MEDALS—IMPERIAL AND OTHER VALUABLE COLLECTIONS OF MINERALS AND NATURAL CURIOSITIE* —THE ..."

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