learnedness
nɪd adjective
1.
having much knowledge; scholarly; erudite: learned professors.
2.
connected or involved with the pursuit of knowledge, especially of a scholarly nature: a learned journal.
3.
of or showing learning or knowledge; well-informed: learned in the ways of the world.
4.
acquired by experience, study, etc.: learned behavior.
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learned (ˈlɜːnɪd) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | having great knowledge or erudition |
| 2. | involving or characterized by scholarship |
| 3. | (prenominal) a title applied in referring to a member of the legal profession, esp to a barrister: my learned friend |
| 'learnedly | |
| —adv | |
| 'learnedness | |
| —n | |
| learned (ˈlɜːnɪd) | |
| —adj | |
| 1. | having great knowledge or erudition |
| 2. | involving or characterized by scholarship |
| 3. | (prenominal) a title applied in referring to a member of the legal profession, esp to a barrister: my learned friend |
| 'learnedly | |
| —adv | |
| 'learnedness | |
| —n | |
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Word Origin & History
learn
O.E. leornian "to get knowledge, be cultivated," from P.Gmc. *liznojan (cf. O.Fris. lernia, O.H.G. lernen, Ger. lernen "to learn," Goth. lais "I know), with a base sense of "to follow or find the track," from PIE *leis- "track." Related to Ger. Gleis "track," and to O.E. læst "sole of the foot"
(see last (n.)). The transitive sense (He learned me how to read), now vulgar, was acceptable from c.1200 until early 19c., from O.E. læran "to teach" (cf. M.E. lere, Ger. lehren "to teach;" see lore), and is preserved in the adj. learned "having knowledge gained by study" (c.1340).
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