experience
/iks'piəriəns/
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Definition
Noun:
- Knowledge or skill gained over time: The understanding or practical wisdom acquired through direct involvement in events or activities over a period.
- An event or occurrence that affects someone: A specific incident or period that one lives through, which may involve learning or emotion.
Verb:
- To undergo or live through an event or feeling: To be directly involved in and affected by a situation, emotion, or series of events.
- To feel or be aware of a sensation or emotion: To have a particular feeling or perception.
Examples of Usage
Noun:
- She has years of experience in teaching. (She has gained skill and knowledge from working as a teacher for a long time.)
- Traveling alone was a valuable experience for him. (The event of traveling alone was a significant and educational occurrence.)
Verb:
- He experienced great joy at the news. (He felt a strong emotion of joy.)
- The city experienced heavy rainfall last night. (The city underwent the event of heavy rain.)
Advanced Usage
"to have a ... experience": Used to describe the nature of an event one goes through.
- I had a terrifying experience during the storm. (The event I lived through was frightening.)
"to speak from experience": To give advice or an opinion based on one's own past involvement.
- He advises caution, speaking from experience. (His advice comes from his own past knowledge of similar situations.)
Variants and Related Words
Experienced (adj): Having knowledge or skill from direct participation.
- We need an experienced guide for this trek.
Experiential (adj): Relating to or derived from experience.
- The course focuses on experiential learning.
Synonyms
- Noun: Expertise, background, familiarity.
- Verb: Undergo, encounter, feel, endure.
Related Phrases (Phrasal Verbs)
- Experience something firsthand: To be directly involved in an event, not just hear about it.
- To understand poverty, you must experience it firsthand.
Related Idioms
A learning experience: An event from which one gains useful knowledge, even if it was difficult.
- Failing the test was a learning experience for him. (He learned an important lesson from failing.)
To be an experience: Used to say something is very notable, unusual, or memorable.
- Watching the volcano erupt was quite an experience! (It was a very remarkable event.)
Noun
- an event as apprehended
- a surprising experience
- that painful experience certainly got our attention
- the content of direct observation or participation in an event
- he had a religious experience
- he recalled the experience vividly
- the accumulation of knowledge or skill that results from direct participation in events or activities
- a man of experience
- experience is the best teacher
Verb
- undergo
- The stocks had a fast run-up
- undergo an emotional sensation or be in a particular state of mind
- She felt resentful
- He felt regret
- go through (mental or physical states or experiences)
- get an idea
- experience vertigo
- get nauseous
- receive injuries
- have a feeling
- have firsthand knowledge of states, situations, emotions, or sensations
- I know the feeling!
- 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
- go or live through
- We had many trials to go through
- he saw action in Viet Nam