Dictionary entry

Learn (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Learn, v. i. To acquire knowledge or skill; to make progress in acquiring knowledge or skill; to receive information or instruction; as, this child learns quickly.

Take my yoke upon you and learn of me. Matt. xi. 29.

To learn by heart. See By heart, under Heart. — To learn by rote, to memorize by repetition without exercise of the understanding.