to gain knowledge or a new skill by studying, practicing, or being taught
I want to learn how to play the guitar.
Children learn new words quickly when they hear bedtime stories.
✦ Old English ‘leornian’ meaning ‘to acquire knowledge’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch ‘leren’ and German ‘lernen’.
to find out or become aware of something
I just learned that the train is delayed by an hour.
Did you learn about the change in schedule?
present participle of learn: the act of gaining knowledge or skill while an action is in progress or described as a general activity
The children are learning to swim this summer.
He spent the afternoon learning new guitar chords.
(archaic, dialect) to teach someone
My grandmother used to learn me how to bake bread.
He promised to learn the apprentice a new fishing knot.
