learning
n. uncountablen. the process of getting new knowledge or skills by studying, practicing, or being taught.
n. the acquisition of knowledge or skills through experience, study, or by being taught.
Online tools can make learning a new language much easier.
The school focuses on active learning where students participate in experiments rather than just reading books.
Lifelong learning has become essential in the modern economy as rapid technological shifts require workers to constantly update their professional skill sets.
From Middle English lernyng, lernynge, from Old English leornung (“learning, study”), from Proto-West Germanic *liʀnungu (“learning”), equivalent to learn + -ing. Cognate with Old Saxon lernunga, German Lernung.
Uncountable when referring to the general process; occasionally countable in academic contexts when referring to specific types of knowledge acquisition.