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experience meaning

EN[ɪkˈspɪɹ.i.ənts] [ɪkˈspɪə.ɹɪənts]
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WExperience
  • Experience is the knowledge or mastery of an event or subject gained through involvement in or exposure to it. Terms in philosophy, such as "empirical knowledge" or "a posteriori knowledge," are used to refer to knowledge based on experience.
  • The interrogation of experience has a long tradition in continental philosophy. Experience plays an important role in the philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard.
  • Certain religious traditions (such as types of Buddhism, Surat Shabd Yoga, mysticism and Pentecostalism) and educational paradigms with, for example, the conditioning of military recruit-training (also known as "boot camps"),
FR expérience

    Definition of experience in English Dictionary

  • NounPLexperiencesSUF-ence
    1. (countable, uncountable) Event(s) of which one is cognizant.
      1. It was an experience he would not soon forget. ‎
    2. (countable) An activity which one has performed.
      1. “I have tried, as I hinted, to enlist the co-operation of other capitalists, but experience has taught me that any appeal is futile that does not impinge directly upon cupidity. …”
    3. (countable) A collection of events and/or activities from which an individual or group may gather knowledge, opinions, and skills.
      1. (uncountable) The knowledge thus gathered.
        1. In his submission to the UN, [Christof] Heyns points to the experience of drones. Unmanned aerial vehicles were intended initially only for surveillance, and their use for offensive purposes was prohibited, yet once strategists realised their perceived advantages as a means of carrying out targeted killings, all objections were swept out of the way.
    4. VerbSGexperiencesPRexperiencingPT, PPexperienced
      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.
      2. More Examples
        1. Used in the Middle of Sentence
          • And it put Britain’s most senior and most experienced eurocrat, Jonathan Faull, in charge of it.
          • Hence, in determining whether a form should be ranked as a species or a variety, the opinion of naturalists having sound judgment and wide experience seems the only guide to follow.
          • Such changes were experienced by the cafegoer in the example as a source of mild irritation, of feeling 'bothered a bit'.
        2. Used in the Beginning of Sentence
          • Experienced fly-fishers prefer stockingfoot waders.
        3. Used in the Ending of Sentence
          • Technology shrinks and expands at the same time: we launched PORTER, our glossy shoppable print magazine in February 2014, because our customers enjoy 360-degree immersive experiences.
          • There's little sense of occasion in going to the cinema today, but the hows and wheres of viewing a film can deeply colour the whole viewing experience.
          • They've put John out to pasture and replaced him with someone who's got half his experience.
      • Part-of-Speech Hierarchy
        1. Nouns
          • Countable nouns
            • Singularia tantum
              • Uncountable nouns
            • Verbs
              • Transitive verbs
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            Source: Wiktionary

            Meaning of experience for the defined word.

            Grammatically, this word "experience" is a noun, more specifically, a countable noun and a singularia tantum. It's also a verb, more specifically, a transitive verb.
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