Learn vs Beginner - What's the difference?
learn | beginner |
To acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something.
To attend a course or other educational activity.
* 1719 ,
To gain knowledge from a bad experience.
To be studying.
To come to know; to become informed of; to find out.
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*:And whan she had serched hym / she fond in the bottome of his wound that therin was poyson / And soo she heled hym/ and therfore Tramtrist cast grete loue to la beale Isoud / for she was at that tyme the fairest mayde and lady of the worlde / And there Tramtryst lerned her to harpe / and she beganne to haue grete fantasye vnto hym
*1599 , (William Shakespeare), (Much Ado About Nothing) ,
*:Sweet prince, you learn me noble thankfulness.
*circa 1611 , (William Shakespeare), (Cymbeline), :
*:Have I not been / Thy pupil long? Hast thou not learn’d me how / To make perfumes?
*1993 , The Simpsons , (18 Feb. 1993)
*:That'll learn him to bust my tomater.
Someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.
Someone who sets (or puts) something in motion
As a verb learn
is to acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something or learn can be .As a noun beginner is
someone who is just starting at something, or has only recently started.learn
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) lernen, from (etyl) . Compare (etyl) lernen.Verb
- For, as he took delight to introduce me, I took delight to learn.
- learn from one's mistakes
- He just learned that he will be sacked.
Usage notes
* See other, dated and regional, sense of below.Synonyms
* (l)Antonyms
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* (l) * (l)Etymology 2
From (etyl) . Compare Dutch leren, German (m).Verb
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Usage notes
Now often considered non-standard.Derived terms
* (l)References
* * * Family Word Finder Readers Digest Association Inc. NY 1975beginner
English
Noun
(en noun)- I'm pretty new at learning Japanese, I'm just a beginner .
- The beginner of the games lit the ceremonial torch .