Definition of Experience in English :

Define Experience in English

Experience meaning in English

Meaning of Experience in English

Pronunciation of Experience in English

Experience pronunciation in English

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Experience

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Noun

1. experience

the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities

Example Sentences:
'a man of experience'
'experience is the best teacher'

2. experience

the content of direct observation or participation in an event

Example Sentences:
'he had a religious experience'
'he recalled the experience vividly'

3. experience

an event as apprehended

Example Sentences:
'a surprising experience'
'that painful experience certainly got our attention'

Verb

4. experience, go through, see

go or live through

Example Sentences:
'We had many trials to go through'
'he saw action in Viet Nam'

5. experience, know, live

have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations

Example Sentences:
'I know the feeling!'
'have you ever known hunger?'
'I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict'
'The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare'
'I lived through two divorces'

6. experience, get, have, receive

go through (mental or physical states or experiences)

Example Sentences:
'get an idea'
'experience vertigo'
'get nauseous'
'receive injuries'
'have a feeling'

7. experience, feel

undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind

Example Sentences:
'She felt resentful'
'He felt regret'

8. experience, have

undergo

Example Sentences:
'The stocks had a fast run-up'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Experience

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noun
1. 
direct personal participation or observation; actual knowledge or contact
experience of prison life
2. 
a particular incident, feeling, etc, that a person has undergone
an experience to remember
3. 
accumulated knowledge, esp of practical matters
a man of experience
4. 
a. 
the totality of characteristics, both past and present, that make up the particular quality of a person, place, or people
b. 
the impact made on an individual by the culture of a people, nation, etc
the American experience
5. philosophy
a. 
the content of a perception regarded as independent of whether the apparent object actually exists
Compare sense datum
b. 
the faculty by which a person acquires knowledge of contingent facts about the world, as contrasted with reason
c. 
the totality of a person's perceptions, feelings, and memories
verb (transitive)
6. 
to participate in or undergo
7. 
to be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel
to experience beauty

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Experience

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noun
1. 
the act of living through an event or events; personal involvement in or observation of events as they occur
2. 
anything observed or lived through
an experience he'll never forget
3. 
a. 
all that has happened in one's life to date
not within his experience
b. 
everything done or undergone by a group, people in general, etc.
4. 
the effect on a person of anything or everything that has happened to that person; individual reaction to events, feelings, etc.
5. 
a. 
activity that includes training, observation of practice, and personal participation
b. 
the period of such activity
c. 
knowledge, skill, or practice resulting from this
verb transitiveWord forms: exˈperienced or exˈperiencing
6. 
to have experience of; personally encounter or feel; meet with; undergo

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.


Experience

see synonyms of experience
n.
1. The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow.
2.
a. Active participation in events or activities, leading to the accumulation of knowledge or skill: a lesson taught by experience; a carpenter with experience in roof repair.
b. The knowledge or skill so derived.
3.
a. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
b. The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.
tr.v. ex·per·i·enced, ex·per·i·enc·ing, ex·per·i·enc·es
To participate in personally; undergo: experience a great adventure; experienced loneliness.

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