LEARNED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does learned mean? 

• LEARNED (adjective)
  The adjective LEARNED has 3 senses:

1. having or showing profound knowledge

2. highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

3. established by conditioning or learning

  Familiarity information: LEARNED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• LEARNED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Having or showing profound knowledge

Synonyms:

erudite; learned

Context example:

an erudite professor

Similar:

scholarly (characteristic of scholars or scholarship)

Derivation:

learnedness (profound scholarly knowledge)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Highly educated; having extensive information or understanding

Synonyms:

knowing; knowledgeable; learned; lettered; well-educated; well-read

Context example:

a knowledgeable audience

Similar:

educated (possessing an education (especially having more than average knowledge))

Derivation:

learnedness (profound scholarly knowledge)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Established by conditioning or learning

Synonyms:

conditioned; learned

Context example:

a conditioned response

Domain category:

psychological science; psychology (the science of mental life)

 Context examples 

I had learned of the device from the talk of the hunters, and it was a simple thing to manufacture.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

When an actor I had, of course, learned all the secrets of making up, and had been famous in the green-room for my skill.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I learned that your object was to invite Mr. Sherlock Holmes to undertake the conduct of this case.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And had remembered all that he had learned.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw the glance, but he gave no sign, for among the things he had learned was discipline.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

He had never learned to play with them.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

“I think she might have improved me, and I think I might have learned from her,” said Dora.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

To be sure, it was an unwonted performance: but he had learned to trust in men he knew, and to give them credit for a wisdom that outreached his own.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They learned his secrets in the Scholomance, amongst the mountains over Lake Hermanstadt, where the devil claims the tenth scholar as his due.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

I learned the name of it from the vicar, and I wired to make certain that Dr. Leon Sterndale’s account was true.

(His Last Bow, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)