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Definition of Learner
1. Noun. Someone (especially a child) who learns (as from a teacher) or takes up knowledge or beliefs.
Generic synonyms: Individual, Mortal, Person, Somebody, Someone, Soul
Specialized synonyms: Memoriser, Memorizer, Quick Study, Sponge, Dweeb, Grind, Nerd, Swot, Wonk, Tutee
Derivative terms: Assimilate, Learn, Scholarship
2. Noun. Works for an expert to learn a trade.
Generic synonyms: Beginner, Initiate, Novice, Tiro, Tyro
Specialized synonyms: Printer's Devil
Derivative terms: Apprentice, Apprenticeship, Learn
Definition of Learner
1. n. One who learns; a scholar.
Definition of Learner
1. Noun. One that is learning ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Learner
1. one that learns [n -S] - See also: learns
Lexicographical Neighbors of Learner
Literary usage of Learner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Seven Laws of Teaching by John Milton Gregory (1886)
"THE LAW OF THE learner. I. Passing from the side of the teacher to the side of
the pupil, our next inquiry is for the Law of the learner. ..."
2. Democracy and Education: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Education by John Dewey (1916)
"The Development of Subject Matter in the learner. — It is possible, without doing
violence to the facts, to mark off three fairly typical stages in the ..."
3. A Dictionary of Mechanical Science, Arts, Manufactures, and Miscellaneous by Alexander Jamieson (1829)
"Hitherto the learner has been accustomed to walk from a to ... The exercise is
made more difficult by obliging the learner to bold his hands across bis ..."
4. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1910)
"If only certain agents or employés of a railroad company have the authority to
select "learner" or apprentice firemen, and to permit them to go upon the ..."
5. Reviews of National Policies for Educationby Centre for Co-operation with Non-members by Centre for Co-operation with Non-members (2001)
"Aligning national policy and implementation with the underlying ~learner-centred"
philosophy of learning Estonia Estonia has made excellent progress since ..."
6. From Initial Education to Working Life: Making Transitions Workby OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope by OECD Staff, (Paris) Organisation for Economic Co-ope (2000)
"learner-centred approaches to promoting lifelong learning The second set of
approaches to promoting lifelong learning within the transition phase focuses ..."
7. Lectures on the Science and Art of Education, with Other Lectures and Essays by Joseph Payne (1892)
"The most influential, the satisfaction of the learner in gaming ... The child a
learner who teaches himself. The child learns by personal experience. 7. ..."
8. The High School: Its Function, Organization and Administration by John Elbert Stout (1914)
"The learner's mind, not the teacher's, furnishes the only proper basis for a
useful organization of subject matter. A knowledge of the adolescent mind is ..."
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