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Meaning of 'experience'
Meaning of 'experience' (Webster Dictionary)
1. Experience 
[ n.]
- Trial, as a test or experiment. [ n.]- The effect upon the judgment or feelings produced by any event, whether witnessed or participated in; personal and direct impressions as contrasted with description or fancies; personal acquaintance; actual enjoyment or suffering.
- An act of knowledge, one or more, by which single facts or general truths are ascertained; experimental or inductive knowledge; hence, implying skill, facility, or practical wisdom gained by personal knowledge, feeling or action; as, a king without experience of war.
Meaning of 'experience' (Princeton's WordNet)
1. experience [ n]
[ n]Meaning (1):
- the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
- the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
Example in sentence:
- a man of experience;
- experience is the best teacher
Meaning (2):
- an event as apprehended
- an event as apprehended
Example in sentence:
- a surprising experience;
- that painful experience certainly got our attention
Meaning (3):
- the content of direct observation or participation in an event
- the content of direct observation or participation in an event
Example in sentence:
- he had a religious experience;
- he recalled the experience vividly
2. experience [ v]
[ v]Meaning (4):
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
Example in sentence:
- experience vertigo;
- get an idea;
- get nauseous;
- have a feeling;
- receive injuries
Meaning (5):
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
Example in sentence:
- have you ever known hunger?;
- I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict;
- I know the feeling!;
- I lived through two divorces;
- The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare
Meaning (6):
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
Example in sentence:
- He felt regret;
- She felt resentful
Meaning (7):
- undergo
- undergo
Example in sentence:
- The stocks had a fast run-up
Meaning (8):
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
- undergo or live through a difficult experience
Example in sentence:
- he saw action in Viet Nam;
- We had many trials to go through
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