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Experience   /ɪkspˈɪriəns/   Listen
Experience

noun
1.
The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities.  "Experience is the best teacher"
2.
The content of direct observation or participation in an event.  "He recalled the experience vividly"
3.
An event as apprehended.  "That painful experience certainly got our attention"
verb
(past & past part. experienced; pres. part. experiencing)
1.
Go or live through.  Synonyms: go through, see.  "He saw action in Viet Nam"
2.
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.  Synonyms: know, live.  "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"
3.
Go through (mental or physical states or experiences).  Synonyms: get, have, receive.  "Experience vertigo" , "Get nauseous" , "Receive injuries" , "Have a feeling"
4.
Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.  Synonym: feel.  "He felt regret"
5.
Undergo.  Synonym: have.



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"Experience" Quotes from Famous Books



... together one's scattered impressions and communicate them to some sympathetic being. The abbe, then, would break the same lances as myself with my uncle and cousin. The chevalier, who was an ardent admirer of the fair sex, of which he had had but little experience, used to take upon himself, like a true French knight, to defend all the beauties that we were attacking so unmercifully. He would laughingly accuse the abbe of arguing about women as the fox in the fable argued about the grapes. ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
... which give occasion only to the interchange of bitter expressions. There has sprung from these endless disputes, disunion in families, the dissolution of the oldest friendships, and the growth of hatred which will continue till the grave. Experience proves that in these contests no one is ever convinced, and that each goes away more than ever persuaded of the ...
— The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction - Vol. 20, Issue 558, July 21, 1832 • Various
... think not, indeed! Book-learning isn't everything. With all your experience of life you could teach Sarah a precious sight more than she can teach you,' ...
— Sarah's School Friend • May Baldwin
... "remember the fifth of November." It came in with a display of fireworks; it went out like an inferno. Profiting by his previous experience, the enemy shelled a portion of our front deliberately from early evening until dark, with the obvious intention of cutting the wire on a portion of our sector. At ten o'clock that night, down came another intensive bombardment, ...
— With the British Army in The Holy Land • Henry Osmond Lock
... mine eyes. And may at last my weary age Find out the peacefull hermitage, The Hairy Gown and Mossy Cell, Where I may sit and rightly spell Of every Star that Heav'n doth shew, And every Herb that sips the dew; Till old experience do attain To somthing like Prophetic strain. These pleasures Melancholy give, And I with ...
— Book of English Verse • Bulchevy


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