experience
experience n
Fr. to try, put to the test.
- Wisdom; understanding; common sense; learning by doing; knowledge resulting from trials; [fig.] mortality; life on earth.
experience [-ed] v
see experience, n.
- Receive; come to know; become acquainted with.
- Undergo; suffer; be subject to; arrive at a state of being.
- Test; prove; partake; use; practice; [fig.] know by reading; learn by studying; become acquainted with through language.