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Experience   /ɪkspˈɪriəns/   Listen
Experience

noun
1.
The accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities.  "Experience is the best teacher"  Antonym: inexperience.
2.
The content of direct observation or participation in an event.  "He recalled the experience vividly"
3.
An event as apprehended.  "That painful experience certainly got our attention"
verb
(past & past part. experienced; pres. part. experiencing)
1.
Go or live through.  Synonyms: go through, see.  "He saw action in Viet Nam"
2.
Have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations.  Synonyms: know, live.  "Have you ever known hunger?" , "I have lived a kind of hell when I was a drug addict" , "The holocaust survivors have lived a nightmare" , "I lived through two divorces"
3.
Go through (mental or physical states or experiences).  Synonyms: get, have, receive.  "Experience vertigo" , "Get nauseous" , "Receive injuries" , "Have a feeling"
4.
Undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind.  Synonym: feel.  "He felt regret"
5.
Undergo.  Synonym: have.



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"Experience" Quotes from Famous Books



... took them to the Riverside. A new bond of experience had been established between them. They dined quietly and as the lights grew mellow she told him more of her story than she had ever breathed ...
— Constance Dunlap • Arthur B. Reeve
... her. "I mustn't! I mustn't!" he said to himself. "What'd become of us?" If his passions had been as virgin, as inexperienced, as hers, no power could have held him from going with her and marrying her. But experience had taught him the abysmal difference between before and after; and he found strength to be sensible, even in the height of his ...
— Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise • David Graham Phillips
... child more warmly or more deeply than Susanna loved her little Hulda, who also, under her care, became the loveliest and the most amiable child that ever was seen. And woe to those who did any wrong to the little Hulda! They had to experience the whole force of Susanna's often strong-handed displeasure. For her sake Susanna passed here several years of laborious servitude: as she, however, saw no end to this, yet was scarcely able to dress herself and her sister befittingly, and besides this was prevented ...
— Strife and Peace • Fredrika Bremer
... George had been found out. He was quite sure of that. And he had to undergo all that was unpleasant without sufficient experience to tell him that those clouds too would pass away quickly. He still walked homewards across St. James's Park, never stopping, but dragging himself along slowly, and when he came to his own door he let himself in ...
— Is He Popenjoy? • Anthony Trollope
... great southeastern promontory in Newfoundland, and had planted there a colony as an asylum for English Catholics. Baltimore himself had been detained in England for some years, but in 1627 came with his wife and children to take personal control of his little settlement. His experience with the severe Newfoundland winter persuaded him that it would be wise to transfer his colony to a more congenial clime. "From the middle of October," he wrote Charles I, "to the middle of May there is a sad face of winter upon all the land; ...
— Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 • Thomas J. Wertenbaker


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