• (America) IPA: /ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.əns/
• (RP) IPA: /ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪəns/

experience

1. 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.

   • Those that undertook the religion of our Savior upon his preaching, had no experience of it.

2. (countable) An activity one has performed.
3. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.

   • To most men experience is like the stern lights of a ship, which illumine only the track it has passed.

   • When the consuls […] came in […] they knew soon by experience how slenderly guarded against danger the majesty of rulers is where force is wanting.

   • 1689 (indicated as 1690)​, [John Locke], chapter 2, in An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding. […], London: […] Thomas Basset, […], OCLC 153628242 ↗, book I, page 1 ↗:

     Whence has it all the materials of reason and knowledge? To this I answer in one word, from experience.

4. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
5. (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.

   • She caused him to make experience / Upon wild beasts.

• inexperience

• 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; past and past participle experienced)

1. (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.

• undergo

• French: éprouver, vivre
• German: erfahren, erleben
• Italian: esperire
• Portuguese: experienciar, vivenciar
• Russian: испы́тывать
• Spanish: experimentar, vivir