Pronunciation Noun
experience
- 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.
- (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.
- 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.
- (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
- (obsolete, uncountable) Trial; a test or experiment.
- She caused him to make experience / Upon wild beasts.
- 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)
- (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
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