Learn vs Earn - What's the difference?
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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.
(lb) To gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.
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*:Carried somehow, somewhither, for some reason, on these surging floods, were these travelers, of errand not wholly obvious to their fellows, yet of such sort as to call into query alike the nature of their errand and their own relations. It is easily earned repetition to state that Josephine St. Auban's was a presence not to be concealed.
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, title= (lb) To receive payment for work.
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(lb) To receive payment for work.
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(lb) To cause (someone) to receive payment or reward.
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(lb) To be worthy of.
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(obsolete) To long; to yearn.
* Spenser
(obsolete) To grieve.
As verbs the difference between learn and earn
is that learn is to acquire, or attempt to acquire knowledge or an ability to do something while earn is to gain (success, reward, recognition) through applied effort or work.As a noun earn is
alternative form of lang=en.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
* (l) * (l)Derived terms
* (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 1975earn
English
Etymology 1
Old English earnianVerb
(en verb)International friendly: England 1-0 Spain, passage=England will not be catapulted among the favourites for Euro 2012 as a result of this win, but no victory against Spain is earned easily and it is right they take great heart from their efforts as they now prepare to play Sweden at Wembley on Tuesday.}}
Synonyms
* (gain through applied effort or work) deserve, merit, garner, win * * * (cause someone to receive payment or reward) yield, make, generate, renderDerived terms
* earner * earnings * earn one's keepEtymology 2
Anglo-Saxon irnan to run. See rennet, and compare yearnings.Etymology 3
Verb
(en verb)- And ever as he rode, his heart did earn / To prove his puissance in battle brave.