Definition of learns

"learns" in the verb sense

1. learn, larn, acquire

gain knowledge or skills

"She learned dancing from her sister"

"I learned Sanskrit"

"Children acquire language at an amazing rate"

2. learn, hear, get word, get wind, pick up, find out, get a line, discover, see

get to know or become aware of, usually accidentally

"I learned that she has two grown-up children"

"I see that you have been promoted"

3. memorize, memorise, con, learn

commit to memory learn by heart

"Have you memorized your lines for the play yet?"

4. learn, study, read, take

be a student of a certain subject

"She is reading for the bar exam"

5. teach, learn, instruct

impart skills or knowledge to

"I taught them French"

"He instructed me in building a boat"

6. determine, check, find out, see, ascertain, watch, learn

find out, learn, or determine with certainty, usually by making an inquiry or other effort

"I want to see whether she speaks French"

"See whether it works"

"find out if he speaks Russian"

"Check whether the train leaves on time"

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Quotations for learns

Guilt soon learns to lie. [ Miss Braddon ]

He that nothing questions learns nothing. [ Proverb ]

The eternal talker neither hears nor learns. [ Proverb ]

He that learns a trade hath a purchase made. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

As the old cock crows, the young one learns. [ Proverb ]

A barber learns to shave by shaving of fools. [ Proverb ]

He is a true sage who learns from all the world. [ Eastern Proverb ]

He that is much flattered soon learns to flatter himself. [ Johnson ]

Experience wounded is the school where man learns piercing wisdom out of smart. [ Lord Brooke ]

We must consider humanity as a man who continually grows old, and always learns. [ L. Figuier ]

Orthodoxy is the Bourbon of the world of thought. It learns not, neither can it forget. [ Professor Huxley ]

Every traveller has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering. [ Dickens ]

The true scholar learns from the known to unfold the unknown, and approaches more and more to being a master. [ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ]

Hurry and cunning are the two apprentices of despatch and skill; but neither of them ever learns his master's trade. [ Colton ]

He who learns the rules of wisdom, without conforming to them in his life, is like a man who labored in his fields, but did not sow. [ Saadi ]

It is one of the worst effects of prosperity to make a man a vortex, instead of a fountain; so that, instead of throwing out, he learns only to draw in. [ Beecher ]

The head learns new things, but the heart forevermore practices old experiences. Therefore our life is but a new form of the way men have lived from the beginning. [ Henry Ward Beecher ]

Sympathy is the first great lesson which man should learn.... Unless he learns to feel for things in which he has no personal interest, he can achieve nothing generous or noble. [ Talfourd ]

Laziness grows on people; it begins in cobwebs, and ends in iron chains. The more business a man has to do, the more he is able to accomplish, for he learns to economize his time. [ Judge Hale ]

When one has been tormented and fatigued by his sensitiveness, he learns that he must live from day to day, forget all that is possible, and efface his life from memory as it passes. [ Chamfort ]

No picture of life can have any veracity that does not admit the odious facts. A man's power is hooped in by a necessity, which, by many experiments, he touches on every side, until he learns its arc. [ Emerson ]

The human mind, in proportion as it is deprived of external resources, sedulously labours to find within itself the means of happiness, learns to rely with confidence on its own exertions, and gains with greater certainty the power of being happy. [ Zimmermann ]

Bright and illustrious illusions! Who can blame, who laugh at the boy, who not admire and commend him, for that desire of a fame outlasting the Pyramids by which he insensibly learns to live in a life beyond the present, and nourish dreams of a good unattainable by the senses? [ Bulwer-Lytton ]

learns in Scrabble®

The word learns is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 6

Highest Scoring Scrabble® Plays In The Letters learns:

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learns in Words With Friends™

The word learns is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 8

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Words containing the sequence learns

Words that start with learns (1 word)

Words with learns in them (1 word)

Words that end with learns (7 words)

Word Growth involving learns

Shorter words in learns

ar ear earn earns

ar ear earn learn

ar ear lear learn

lea lear learn

Longer words containing learns

mislearns

outlearns

overlearns

relearns

selflearns

unlearns