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experience
[ ik-speer-ee-uhns ]
noun
- a particular instance of personally encountering or undergoing something:
My encounter with the bear in the woods was a frightening experience.
- the process or fact of personally observing, encountering, or undergoing something:
business experience.
- the observing, encountering, or undergoing of things generally as they occur in the course of time:
to learn from experience; the range of human experience.
- knowledge or practical wisdom gained from what one has observed, encountered, or undergone:
a man of experience.
- Philosophy. the totality of the cognitions given by perception; all that is perceived, understood, and remembered.
verb (used with object)
- to have experience of; meet with; undergo; feel:
to experience nausea.
Synonyms: , , ,
- to learn by experience.
experience
/ ɪˈɪəɪəԲ /
noun
- direct personal participation or observation; actual knowledge or contact
experience of prison life
- a particular incident, feeling, etc, that a person has undergone
an experience to remember
- accumulated knowledge, esp of practical matters
a man of experience
- the totality of characteristics, both past and present, that make up the particular quality of a person, place, or people
- the impact made on an individual by the culture of a people, nation, etc
the American experience
- philosophy
- the content of a perception regarded as independent of whether the apparent object actually exists Compare sense datum
- the faculty by which a person acquires knowledge of contingent facts about the world, as contrasted with reason
- the totality of a person's perceptions, feelings, and memories
verb
- to participate in or undergo
- to be emotionally or aesthetically moved by; feel
to experience beauty
Derived Forms
- ˈԳ, adjective
Other Word Forms
- ·۾·Գ·· adjective
- ·۾·Գ· adjective
- Dze·۾·Գ adjective
- e·۾·Գ noun verb (used with object) preexperienced preexperiencing
- e·۾·Գ verb reexperienced reexperiencing
Word History and Origins
Origin of experience1
Word History and Origins
Origin of experience1
Idioms and Phrases
- experience religion, to undergo a spiritual conversion by which one gains or regains faith in God.
Example Sentences
June 2021: Pham addressed the torrent of verbal abuse he experienced after getting off to a poor start with the San Diego Padres.
“I know T&T may not be well-known in Irvine, but we are excited to surprise our shoppers with a unique shopping experience.”
As an experienced London Marathon-er, does she have any words of wisdom for her fellow parliamentarian?
The reality TV star on the show, which is about a group of autistic adults' experiences dating, said Kennedy's comments were "completely false".
"It's a real shared experience, it's so wonderful," she said, skipping off to catch up with the rest of her group.
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How Do You Spell Experience?
Spelling tips for experience
The word experience is hard to spell for two reasons. First, it is tempting to use an a rather than an e in the final syllable, as in experiance. Second, people often think the final [ s] sound is spelled with an s rather than a c, as in experiense.
How to spell experience: An experience is an expert science. Drop the final t in expert and the sc- in science, and you get experience.
When To Use
is another way to say experience?
To experience something is to meet with it or feel it firsthand. How is experience different from undergo? Find out on .
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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