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ex⋅pe⋅ri⋅enced

  [ik-speer-ee-uhnst]
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–adjective
1. wise or skillful in a particular field through experience: an experienced teacher.
2. having learned through experience; taught by experience: experienced through adversity.
3. endured; undergone; suffered through: experienced misfortunes.
Origin:
1560–70; experience + -ed 2

Synonyms:
1. skilled, expert, practiced, veteran, accomplished, versed, adept, qualified.

ex⋅pe⋅ri⋅ence

  [ik-speer-ee-uhns] noun, verb, -enced, -enc⋅ing.
–noun
1. a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something: My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
2. the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something: business experience.
3. the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time: to learn from experience; the range of human experience.
4. knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone: a man of experience.
5. Philosophy. the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.
–verb (used with object)
6. to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel: to experience nausea.
7. to learn by experience.
—Idiom
8. experience religion, to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.
Origin:
1350–1400; ME < L experientia, equiv. to experient- (s. of experiēns, ptp. of experīrī to try, test; see ex- 1 , peril ) + -ia n. suffix; see -ence

Related forms:
ex⋅pe⋅ri⋅ence⋅a⋅ble, adjective
ex⋅pe⋅ri⋅ence⋅less, adjective

Synonyms:
6. encounter, know, endure, suffer. Experience, undergo refer to encountering situations, conditions, etc., in life, or to having certain sensations or feelings. Experience implies being affected by what one meets with: to experience a change of heart, bitter disappointment. Undergo usually refers to the bearing or enduring of something hard, difficult, disagreeable, or dangerous: to undergo severe hardships, an operation.
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ex·pe·ri·ence   (ĭk-spîr'ē-əns)   
n.  
  1. The apprehension of an object, thought, or emotion through the senses or mind: a child's first experience of snow.
    1. 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.
    2. The knowledge or skill so derived.
    3. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
    4. The totality of such events in the past of an individual or group.
    1. An event or a series of events participated in or lived through.
    2. 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.

[Middle English, from Old French, from Latin experientia, from experiēns, experient-, present participle of experīrī, to try; see per-3 in Indo-European roots.]
ex·pe'ri·enc·er n.
ex·pe·ri·enced   (ĭk-spîr'ē-ənst)   
adj.  
  1. Having had experience in an activity or in life in general: a highly experienced traveler.
  2. Skilled or knowledgeable as the result of active participation or practice: consulted an experienced investment counselor.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Experienced

Ex*pe"ri*enced\ (-enst), p. p. & a. Taught by practice or by repeated observations; skillful or wise by means of trials, use, or observation; as, an experienced physician, workman, soldier; an experienced eye.

The ablest and most experienced statesmen. --Bancroft.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.
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Language Translation for : experienced
Spanish: experimentado,
German: erfahren,
Japanese: 経験豊かな
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