experience
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English experience, from Old French -, from Latin experientia, from experiens, present participle of experiri ("to try, put to the test, undertake, undergo"), from ex ("out") + peritus ("experienced, expert"), past participle of *periri; see expert and peril.
Pronunciation Nounexperience
- 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.
- It was an experience he would not soon forget.
- March 20, 1684-5, John Sharp, Sermon preached at Whitehall
- Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.
- (countable) An activity one has performed.
- (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
- 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC ↗:
- they knew soone by experience how slenderly guarded against danger, the majestie of Rulers is
- (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.
- 1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗, stanza 7:
- She caused him to make experience / Vpon wyld beasts, which she in woods did find, / With wrongfull powre oppressing others of their kind
- French: expérience
- German: Erlebnis, Erfahrung
- Italian: esperienza
- Portuguese: experiência
- Russian: о́пыт
- Spanish: experiencia, vivencia
- French: expérience
- German: Praxis, Erlebnis, Erfahrung
- Italian: esperienza
- Portuguese: experiência
- Russian: о́пыт
- Spanish: experiencia
- French: expérience
- German: Erlebnis, Erfahrung
- Italian: esperienza
- Portuguese: experiência
- Russian: о́пыт
- Spanish: experiencia
- French: expérience
- German: Erfahrung
- Italian: esperienza
- Portuguese: experiência
- Russian: о́пыт
- Spanish: experiencia
experience (experiences, present participle experiencing; simple past and past participle experienced)
- (transitive) To observe certain events; undergo a certain feeling or process; or perform certain actions that may alter one or contribute to one's knowledge, opinions, or skills.
- French: éprouver, vivre
- German: erfahren, erleben
- Italian: esperire
- Portuguese: experienciar, vivenciar
- Russian: испы́тывать
- Spanish: experimentar, vivir, experienciar
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